Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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201. “The resting place of the mind is the heart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

202. “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

203. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

205. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

207. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

209. “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

210. “The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement “the arrogance of belonging,” and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with life.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

211. “But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog’s money, my dog’s time – everything.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

212. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

214. “So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

215. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

218. “All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life – collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. It’s a strange line of work, admittedly. I cannot think of a better way to pass my days.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

220. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

223. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

227. “Children don’t have any honor, you see, and they aren’t expected to, because it’s too difficult for them. It’s too painful. But to become an adult, one must step into the field of honor. Everything will be expected of you now. You will need to be vigilant in your principles. Sacrifices will be demanded. You will be judged.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

228. “You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it’s like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

230. “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

231. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

233. “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

234. “Your tears are my prayers.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

235. “The old cobbler had believed in something he called “the signature of all things”-namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity’s betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of our Creator’s love.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

238. “Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

239. “Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

241. “Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

242. “There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

243. “I had a great teacher in India who said to me, ‘If you think you’re spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.’”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

244. “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

245. “Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I’ve learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

246. “Thank you for the tribute of your honesty,” he said – which I thought then, and still think, was one of the most elegant things I’d ever heard anyone say.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

247. “Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

248. “There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny’s molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

250. “I have a friend, an aspiring musician, whose sister said to her one day, quite reasonably, “What happens if you never get anything out of this? What happens if you pursue your passion forever, but success never comes? How will you feel then, having wasted your entire life for nothing?” My friend, with equal reason, replied, “If you can’t see what I’m already getting out of this, then I’ll never be able to explain it to you.” When it’s for love, you will always do it anyhow.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert