Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I'm a people person. I'm a hugger.

I love dogs more than most people I've met.

I come from a family where people are physically affectionate. Hugging and kissing comes naturally to me.

When Nina Simone first sings the title of 'Feeling Good,' her voice has been alone for thirty-nine seconds. The solitary singer: there's always something fiat lux about it. Resolute, the individual moves through the void. You know the accompaniment is coming, but the voice, all by itself, makes you care about it: form turns into feeling.

I prefer my dog to humans.

I'm a quite dramatic person.

For me, animals are not that much different from human beings.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

Enchantment is the purest form of sales

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

I'm a horse of a man!

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.