“ I was a sensitive and easily traumatized creature who would fall into fits of weeping at any disturbance in her force field. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I used to think the 109th bead was an emergency spare. Like the extra button on a fancy sweater, or the youngest son in a royal family. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I had only asked writing to be interesting. And it was always interesting to me. Even when I couldn’t do it right, it was still interesting to me. It still interests me. Nothing has ever interested me… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I cannot unshackle myself from argument, Ambrose. Recall that I am Henry Whittaker's daughter. I was born into argument. Argument was my first nursemaid. Argument is my lifelong bedfellow. What's more… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I believe that enjoying your work with all your heart is the only truly subversive position left to take as a creative person these days. It’s such a gangster move, because hardly anybody ever dares t… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do... Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Henry sailed from England in July of 1776. The stated objectives of Cook’s third expedition were twofold. The first was to sail to Tahiti, to return Sir Joseph Banks’s pet—the man named Omai—to his ho… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ He had learned in the past four years to speak only when he knew that which he was speaking about. Moreover, he had learned that silence can sometimes relax a listener into thinking that one might be… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, and as a lifelong commitment to the search for grace and transcendence. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Giulio and Maria have a beautiful apartment, the most impressive feature of which is, to my mind, the wall that Maria once covered with angry curses against Giulio (scrawled in black magic marker) bec… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal/ financial complicationsor the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Deborah once advised me wisely:Nobody ever died from spl… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ For a group of nationalist intellectuals much later in history to have sat down and decided that Dante’s Italian would now be the official language of Italy would be very much as if a group of Oxford… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Ever try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don’t like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Even if my acquaintance at the publishing party was certain that she herself would never abandon her husband, the question was not entirely up to her. She was not the only person in that bed. All love… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ En un mundo dominado por el desorden y el desastre y el fraude tal vez sólo se pueda confiar en la belleza. Elizabeth Gilbert
