Authors:

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes - Page 9

All Quotes Accomplishment Addiction Art Authority Balance Being Alone Being Single Bliss Bones Character Children Choices Compassion Contentment Country Courage Creativity Curiosity Depression Desire Destiny Devotion Dignity Disappointment Discipline Divorce Earth Effort Ego Energy Expectations Faith Falling In Love Family Fate Feelings Fighting Flying Focus Food Giving Giving Up Grace Greek Grief Growing Up Guilt Happiness Hard Work Healing Heart Heartbreak Heaven Home Honor Hope House Humanity Husband Inspirational Inspiring Intimacy Journey Joy Leaving Letting Go Life Loneliness Lost Love Love Lying Madness Magic Marriage Meditation Metaphor Mom Morning Motivational Opportunity Pain Passion Past Perfection Pleasure Prayer Purpose Reading Reality Religion Resentment Running Sacrifice Sanity School Silence Sleep Solitude Soul Struggle Suffering Surrender Today Tragedy Transformation Trauma Travel Universe Waiting Wall War Water Wife Worry Writing Yoga
I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Writing, Mind, Privilege

God is an experience of supreme love.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Supreme
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Tattoo, Two, Stubborn
"Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Men, Fire
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.149, A&C Black

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Running, Reflection, Water

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Family, Tattoo, Baby
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.12, A&C Black

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Believe, Creativity, Rome
"Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Beautiful, Letting Go, Dark
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.113, A&C Black

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Discipline, Serenity, Energy
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.180, A&C Black

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Appreciation, Anchors, Humanity

I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Baby, Creativity, Thinking

A soul mates 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, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Life, Romantic
"Eat, Pray, Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006.

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Smoking, Soul, Puff
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.177, A&C Black

The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Yoga, Rome, Way
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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
Oxygen, Together, Firsts
Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. 2010.

eventually, everything goes away.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Loss
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building or blowing my brains out with a gun might stop the suffering. but something about spending a night with a knife in my hand did it. The next morning I called my friend Susan as the sun came up, begged her to help me. I don't think a woman in the whole history of my family had ever done that before, had ever sat in the middle of the road like that and said, in the middle of her life, "I cannot walk another step further--somebody has to help me.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Morning, Gun, Night
Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.101, Penguin

I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love You, Needs, I Love Myself

Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Two, World, Bliss
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.187, A&C Black

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Yoga, Silence, Regal
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.151, A&C Black

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Achievement, Eat Love Pray, Bali Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.64, A&C Black

Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Kids, Play, Giving
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Mean, Men, People
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Love Story”, p.155, Penguin

Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Sacrifice, Without Sacrifice
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

Elizabeth Gilbert
Jobs, Persistence, Your Side

You May Also Like: