Top 500 Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes (2024 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. “Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

53. “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

54. “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

55. “Il bel far niente.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

57. “What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

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. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

65. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

67. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

69. “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

70. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

74. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

76. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

78. “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

79. “Fear – who cares?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

80. “I believe in a magnificent God.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

83. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

89. “Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

91. “Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

92. “I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

93. “In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

94. “Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy’s distraction.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

95. “The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life’s achievement.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

97. “Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

100. “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