Top 500 Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

52. “A creative life is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

53. “Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

54. “Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

55. “You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

56. “Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, ‘What do I really, really, really want? ’ You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won’t believe it.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

57. “Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

58. “The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

59. “Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it’s what you want before you commit.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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60. “Il bel far niente.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

61. “I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

62. “I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

63. “A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

64. “I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

65. “You do not need anybody’s permission to live a creative life.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

66. “I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

67. “Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don’t feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

68. “It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you’re working hard. But it’s not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

69. “A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

70. “There is a reason they call God a presence – because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

71. “When something ends, let it end.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

72. “Your treasure – your perfection – is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

73. “Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

74. “Fear – who cares?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

75. “The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

76. “Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

77. “The day is ending. It’s time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

78. “Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

79. “God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

80. “Real, sane, mature love – the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school – is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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81. “As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

82. “That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

83. “If life gives you lemons, don’t settle for simply making lemonade – make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

84. “Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship – a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

85. “Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

86. “God is an experience of supreme love.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

87. “I believe in a magnificent God.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

88. “If you do say yes to an idea, now it’s showtime.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

89. “The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to discover those jewels––that’s creative living.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

90. “So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

91. “Q: What is creativity? A: The relationship between a human being and the mysteries of inspiration.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

92. “Done is better than good.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

93. “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

94. “You almost can’t wait too long to get married. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

95. “I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

96. “I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

97. “When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

98. “From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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99. “Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

100. “It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert