110+ Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes On Creativity, Writing And Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert is an American novelist, best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love. She has also written several other books, including The Signature of All Things, The Last American Man, and City of Girls. She is also a journalist, essayist, short story writer, and biographer. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity, love, life.

Top 10 Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

1. A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
2. I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
3. 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.
4. Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
5. Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
6. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
7. Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
8. The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
9. we must take care of our families wherever we find them.
10. Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Elizabeth Gilbert Short Quotes

• The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
• And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.
• God dwells within you, as you.
• Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
• Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)
• This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
• Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
• A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.
• I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
• You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Creativity

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

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

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

It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If you're alive, you're a creative person. — Elizabeth Gilbert

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Love

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Life

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. — Elizabeth Gilbert

This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Writing

As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, "I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I'm going to give you this assignment." You have to create it yourself or it's never going to happen. — Elizabeth Gilbert

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about how you’re presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it’s all coming from you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do - because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything. — Elizabeth Gilbert

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Fear

Your fear is the most boring thing about you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There's nothing special about your fear. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Inspiring

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. — Elizabeth Gilbert

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I think I deserve something beautiful. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes. And marriage accepts our modifications gracefully. Marriage adapts, evolves and (in a manner that I find miraculous and kind of inspiring) somehow keeps chugging along. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You never know how a good quest is going to end. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About World

The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on. — Elizabeth Gilbert

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. — Elizabeth Gilbert

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. — Elizabeth Gilbert

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real. — Elizabeth Gilbert

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Person

I am a better person when I have less on my plate. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if I had never been wounded or if I had never been betrayed or I had never been harmed. I don't think I would be as good a person. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Work

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living. — Elizabeth Gilbert

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure). — Elizabeth Gilbert

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. — Elizabeth Gilbert

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? — Elizabeth Gilbert

You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? — Elizabeth Gilbert

My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning. It doesn't necessarily have to be important to the people who read it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About People

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. — Elizabeth Gilbert

To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. — Elizabeth Gilbert

In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life; rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay. — Elizabeth Gilbert

People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage. — Elizabeth Gilbert

But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time." "You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress — Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Famous Quotes And Sayings

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy. — Elizabeth Gilbert

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. — Elizabeth Gilbert

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition — Elizabeth Gilbert

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — Elizabeth Gilbert

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. 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

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear. — Elizabeth Gilbert

In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker." — Elizabeth Gilbert

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor. — Elizabeth Gilbert

But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert

a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Let your conscience be your guide. — Elizabeth Gilbert

At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven. — Elizabeth Gilbert

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. — Elizabeth Gilbert

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The resting place of the mind is the heart. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy. — Elizabeth Gilbert

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Life Lessons by Elizabeth Gilbert

1. Elizabeth Gilbert encourages us to take risks and to step out of our comfort zones in order to pursue our passions and live life to the fullest.
2. She also emphasizes the importance of self-care and self-love, reminding us that we are worthy of joy and happiness.
3. Finally, she teaches us to stay open to the beauty of the world and to appreciate the little things in life, as they can bring us the most joy.