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Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Total quotes: 62
“What is so worthy that you will actually devote yourself to giving rather than getting?”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Give Your Attention
Tagged: Generosity, Care
“What is creativity? Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic, Creativity
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
Tagged: Reminiscing, Moving On, Learning from the Past, Life Lessons
“It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Living, imitation
“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, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: Life, Fate, order, Destiny, Human Nature
“A soulmate's 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.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: Forever With You
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Happiness, Effort, Blessings, travel
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Love, Balance, Life, inspiration
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Crying, Emotion, Robots
“I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Wisdom Of Women
Tagged: Strong Women, Being a woman, Powerful Women
“I disappear into the person I love. If I love you, you can have it all.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating
“When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“My head, like a lot of people's heads, is kind of like a neighborhood you don't want to walk around alone in late at night.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations
Tagged: humor, Mental Health, Quote of the Moment
“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, Committed: A Love Story
Tagged: Love, Commitment, Infatuation
“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, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Tagged: Love, Commitment, real love, Acceptance
“The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Love Story
Tagged: Love, Commitment
“As long as I'm still moving in that direction---toward wonder--then I know I will always be fine in my soul, which is where it counts. And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic
“Let inspiration lead you wherever it wants. For most of history people just made things, and they didn’t make such a big freaking deal out of it.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic
“This is a world, not a womb. You can look after yourself in this world while looking after your creativity at the same time — just as people have done for ages.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic
“Through the mere act of creating something—anything—you might inadvertently produce work that is magnificent, eternal, or important.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic
“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“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, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic
“If you don’t have the courage, let’s try to get you some. Because creative living is a path for the brave. We all know this. And we all know that when courage dies, creativity dies with it.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic
“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, Committed: A Love Story
Tagged: Love, Commitment, real love, Respect
“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.’”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: Self Worth, Your Love For Yourself
“It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Fear, Courage, Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
“He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Tagged: Creative Life, Living Creatively, Fighting Back
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Heartbreak, Broken Heart, Failed Attempt, Love, Relationships, Relationships & Dating
“You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Love Story
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Commitment
“For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Love Story
Tagged: Love, Commitment, Men
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Love Story
Tagged: Love, Commitment, forgiveness
“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, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: Best Days, Happiness, Suffering, Future, unknown, Surprises
“Don’t abandon your creativity the moment things top being easy or rewarding — because that’s the moment when interesting beings.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic
“Ideas of every kind are constantly galloping toward us, constantly pass through us, constantly trying to get our attention.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Your Magic
“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: wishing, Backbone, strength, Dreams
“A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Tagged: Creative, Novels, Writing
“Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: smiling, Liver, face, Energy
“I came here to live a life, fully, all of it and I'll take it. I'll take all of it. I'll take the whole thing. Because I don't want to miss it. I don't want to have come all this distance to live a human life and miss the experience. I just wanna show up for the whole ride.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Oprah's Super Soul Conversations
Tagged: Life, The ride never dies, Suffering
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