Quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

The resting place of the mind is the heart.

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Dear me, how I love a library.

So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you

He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

traveling is the great true love of my life

Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.

But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

God is an experience of supreme love.

You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.