Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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151. “When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

152. “Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

153. “I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

154. “Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it’s also a political and economic contract of the highest order.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

155. “If you’re alive, you’re a creative person.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

156. “And you have treasures hidden within you – extraordinary treasures – and so do I, and so does everyone around us. And bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion, and the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

157. “Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

158. “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

159. “You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

160. “Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

161. “He looks at you like you’re someone he’s never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You’re a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

162. “If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

163. “The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

164. “Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

165. “Parla Come Mangi’ – It is a common way to say ‘be simple’, ‘don’t try to be rhetorical’ literaly: ’speak the way you eat.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

166. “Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

167. “Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

168. “We don’t have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

169. “All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. You make space to carry them and you just try not to let them drive. But you can’t chuck them out either.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

171. “If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be -by definition- faith.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

172. “You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

173. “God waited me out.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

175. “We set up one rule in our house, which is, ‘Guests of guests cannot bring guests.’ That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, ‘Okay, you know what? That’s a little too much.’”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

176. “Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

177. “Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

178. “Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

179. “Your art not only doesn’t have to be original, in other words; it also doesn’t have to be important.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

180. “I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams and perspectives and aspirations within me that were original.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

181. “If you don’t learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you’ll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

182. “Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

183. “There’s nothing special about your fear.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

184. “You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

185. “Because when it all comes together, it’s amazing. When it all comes together, the only thing you can do is bow down in gratitude, as if you have been granted an audience with the divine. Because you have.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

186. “British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington’s memorable explanation of how the universe works: “Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

187. “Todo pasa. Con el tiempo todo pasa.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

188. “This is why we have to be careful of how we handle our fear – because I’ve noticed that when people try to kill off their fear, they often end up inadvertently murdering their creativity in the process.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

189. “Done is better than good.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

190. “I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

191. “I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

192. “Interesting outcomes, after all, are just awful outcomes with the volume of drama turned way down. I.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

193. “When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

194. “But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

195. “Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It’s your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

196. “Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

197. “When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

198. “It’s still two human beings trying to get along, so it’s going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

199. “Marriage is not a game for the young.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

200. “Gratitude, always. Always, gratitude.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert