Top 500 Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “Nature provides the seed; man provides the garden; each is grateful for the other’s help.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

207. “Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that’s how it gets done.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

208. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

210. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

213. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

215. “I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure. I believe this is one of the oldest and most generous tricks the universe plays on us human beings, both for its own amusement and for ours: The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels – that’s creative living.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

216. “If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

217. “She said: “We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we’re so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don’t give a damn what anyone thinks of us. But you won’t be completely free until you reach your sixties and seventies, when you finally realize this liberating truth – nobody was ever thinking about you, anyhow.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

218. “This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

219. “You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

220. “The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: “So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.” Perfectionism.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

221. “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything you’re holding back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

222. “Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

223. “Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

224. “Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

225. “The resting place of the mind is the heart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

226. “Childlessness doesn’t make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

227. “I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

228. “I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

229. “Maybe it’s just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak – “I killed this for you, now I’m grilling it for you.””

— Elizabeth Gilbert

230. “When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem.” The.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

231. “I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

232. “The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

233. “It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

234. “Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

235. “I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

236. “Traveling is the great true love of my life... I have always felt that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love of travel.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

237. “I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

238. “As the saying goes: “Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

239. “The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

240. “True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

241. “You have now reached infatuation’s final destination – the complete and merciless devaluation of self.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

242. “In order for marriage to endure it has to change along with us, and it does that very graciously. And in the end I find there is something kind of moving about it: the fact that people continue to insist on choosing somebody to build a life with.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

243. “Life’s metaphors are God’s instructions.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

244. “Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

245. “I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

246. “In ancient Greek, the word for the highest degree of human happiness is eudaimonia, which basically means “well-daemoned” – that is, nicely taken care of by some external divine creative spirit guide.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

247. “A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

248. “Don’t rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

249. “David was catnip and kryptonite to me.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

250. “I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert