Top 500 Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

202. “I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don’t think I’m big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold...”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

210. “My whole life I’ve been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, ‘If it belongs to me, don’t worry: You can have it!’”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

211. “You have no idea how strong my love is!”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

213. “Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

215. “The older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

216. “Perfectionism stops people from completing their work, yes – but even worse, it often stops people from beginning their work. Perfectionists.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

217. “When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

218. “I’ve always been afraid of saying no to people because I don’t want them to be disappointed and dislike me.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

222. “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

223. “You are worthy, dear one, regardless of the outcome. You will keep making your work, regardless of the outcome. You will keep sharing your work, regardless of the outcome. You were born to create, regardless of the outcome. You will never lose trust in the creative process, even when you don’t understand the outcome.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

224. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

229. “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

230. “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

231. “God waited me out.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

232. “What do I believe that I deserve in this life?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

237. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

242. “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

243. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

249. “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

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert