“ It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own p… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In any case, our love is not a typical love, as is typically felt between men and women. We share something else between us - something more immediate, more cherishing. That has been evident to me fro… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ If you’re alive, you’re a creative person. You and I and everyone you know are descended from tens of thousands of years of makers. Decorators, tinkerers, storytellers, dancers, explorers, fiddlers, d… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call The Physics of The Quest — a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I wrote every day throughout my twenties. For a while, I had a boyfriend who was a musician, and he practiced every day. He played scales; I wrote small fictional scenes. It was the same idea - to kee… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I wanted to be all Gandhi about this. I wanted to be all Nelson Mandela about this. Not realizing at the time that both Gandhi and Mandela were lawyers. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, 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… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I lose count of how many bottles of Sardinian wine we drink before Deborah introduces to the table the suggestion that we follow a nice American custom here tonight by joining hands-and each in turn-s… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all these acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end. Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I finally said, Tutti, where did you learn to speak such good English? From a book! she proclaimed. I think you are a very clever girl, I informed her. Thank you! she said, and did a spontaneous littl… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I don’t want to be afraid of bright colors, or new sounds, or big love, or risky decisions, or strange experiences, or weird endeavors, or sudden changes, or even failure. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I don’t think that marriage means to suffer endlessly, in order to prove that you can honor a commitment. I don’t think marriage is supposed to be an endurance contest. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I can cope with, and even somehow enjoy, the sinking melancholy of Venice, just for a few days. Somewhere in me I am able to recognize that this is not my melancholy; this is the city's own indigenous… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life—whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can’t rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, b… Elizabeth Gilbert
