“ I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let g… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I do truly believe I am fortunate. I am fortunate because I have been able to spend my life in study of the world. As such, I have never felt insignificant. This life is a mystery, yes, and it is ofte… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I climbed the stairs to my apartment, lay down in my new bed and turned off the light. I waited to start crying or worrying, Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That’s a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I believe we are all transient, she began. She thought for awhile and added, I believe that we are half-blind and full of errors. I believe that we understand very little, and what we do understand is… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I always hated hearing old people yammering on like this when I was young. And I do what to assure you: I'm aware that many thing were not better in the 1940s. Underarm deodorants and air-conditioning… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I alwaysthought we only had two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust—thin and crispy, orthick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thinand doug… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ How much do you love me?' and Who's in charge? ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.People follow different paths, straight or crooke… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Hearing this announcement, your soul will mobilize accordingly. It will mobilize ecstatically, in fact, because this is what your soul was born for. (Trust me, your soul has been waiting for you to wa… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ He became as close to me as my own, beautiful, random, and real family.Love like that is a deep well, with steep sides.Once you fall in, that’s it—you will love that person always Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Hadn't I wanted this? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life. So why didn't I see myself in any of it? The only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with someone. Don't make your life a monument to David. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one... but it ain't especially smart. Elizabeth Gilbert
