Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

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

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."

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

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

Your fear is the most boring thing about you.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

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

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

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

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

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

Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.

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

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.

You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.

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.

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

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

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

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

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

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

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.

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

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.

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

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

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.

I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

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.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

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

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

Devotion is diligence without assurance

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

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.

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

The resting place of the mind is the heart.

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

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