“I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest” – Elizabeth Gilbert | Travel Quote of the Day

“Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies” – Elizabeth Gilbert | Travel Quote of the Day

“Until-as often happened during those first months of travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband’s voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an […]

“When you are walking down the road in Bali and you pass a stranger, the very first question he or she will ask you is, ‘Where are you going?’ The second question is, ‘Where are you coming from?’ To a Westerner, this can seem like a rather invasive inquiry from a perfect stranger, but they’re […]

“My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet” – Elizabeth Gilbert | […]

“Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in […]

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice” – Elizabeth Gilbert