Elizabeth-gilbert Quotes

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be...

Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever ...

The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, w...

There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to ...

I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American...

I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and clea...

ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the ...

Now that young girls like my twelve-year-old friend Mai are being exposed to modern Western women li...

The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually...

All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or ...

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying the only thing more impossible than stayin ...

I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him wit...

You have no idea how strong my love is!

How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of thei...

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty?

I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all...

The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the wor...

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going ...

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.