A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
Elizabeth GilbertYoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.
Elizabeth GilbertYou are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.
Elizabeth GilbertI would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silentโand working at a pace so slowโthat I would be able to hear myself living.
Elizabeth GilbertEvery few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'
Elizabeth GilbertMarriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.
Elizabeth GilbertWhere did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration.
Elizabeth Gilbert