“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“I met an old lady once, almost a 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 charge?”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“God dwells within you, as you.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.”
— Elizabeth GilbertEach bangle on her wrist was a reminder of who she was and who she aspired to be.
— Elizabeth Gilbert