“ Once upon a time, Aristophanes relates, there were gods in the heavens and humans down on earth. But we humans did not look the way we look today. Instead, we each had two heads and four legs and four… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon, passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Neku večer razgovarali smo o izrazima koje koristimo dok tješimo nekoga očajnog. Rekla sam mu kako na engleskom katkad kažemo Been there. Objasnila sam mu da je duboka tuga kao točno određeno mjesto,… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ My spiritual investigations interest my sister mostly from a point of intellectual curiosity. 'I think that kind of faith is so beautiful,' she whispers to me in the church, 'but I can't do it, I just… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely). Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I’m talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I’m not interested in the insurance industry. I’m tired of being a skeptic, I’m irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don’t want to hear it anymore. I cou… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometim… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It's all just an instinct and an experiment and a mystery, so begin. Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It was the Senator's opinion that a good, peppery chicken soup could cure anything, even childbirth, so he cooked up a nice batch for Stanley Thomas's wife. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It was like one of those dreams where you discover a previously unknown room in your house and you have that expansive feeling that your life has more possibility to it than you thought it did. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ It all comes down to one simple question: Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever--or not? Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy.Women’s sense of integrity seems to be entw… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call the ‘physics of the quest’, a force in nature governed by the laws of gravity. The rules of quest physics goes something like this: If you’re brave… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desper… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ If you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom. Elizabeth Gilbert