“ There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two quest… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The unnecessary and superfluous volume of pure beauty around here is not the be believed. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The sound of the universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there is a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of the night dogs howl about how misunderstood t… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness and a pity— for the experiment of life will cut itself off soon enough, in a… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have ever desired something and then didn't get it (or, worse, got it and subsequently… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Sometimes you will need to leap from one end of this paradoxical spectrum to the other in a matter of minutes, and then back again. As I write this book, for instance, I approach each sentence as if t… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Some people like to argue about God. Not necessary, he said. I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to eve… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on t… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Sincere spiritual investigation is, and always has been, an endeavor of methodical discipline. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ She was of the mind that people should make their own decisions about their own lives, if you can image such a preposterous thing. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ She had dearly missed the northern world during her time in the South Seas. She had missed the change of seasons, and the hard, bright, bracing sunlight of winter. She had missed the rigors of a cold… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, I already have, mister. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it’s a gift. It’s the frosting. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. It’s as if all our gods and angels gathered toget… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Pilgrims WHEN MY OLD MAN said he’d hired her, I said, A girl? A girl, when it wasn’t that long ago women couldn’t work on this ranch even as cooks, because the wranglers got shot over them too much. T… Elizabeth Gilbert
