1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
page 3

Elizabeth M. Gilbert is an American author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010 had spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and which was also made into a film by the same name in 2010. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. July 1969  •  Other names এলিজাবেথ গিলবার্ট
Elizabeth Gilbert photo
Elizabeth Gilbert: 232 quotes17 likes

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

“So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“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: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“You love new boyfriend?"
"I think so. Yes."
"Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“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 book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Teach your heart that this is destiny”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Done is better than good.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Fear--who cares?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“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 book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“God waited me out.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Devotion is diligence without assurance”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“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 book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, “to walk against the wind for pleasure.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“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 book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“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 book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do…”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless
devaluation of self.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Basically, your fear is like a mall cop who thinks he’s a Navy SEAL: He hasn’t slept in days, he’s all hopped up on Red Bull, and he’s liable to shoot at his own shadow in an absurd effort to keep everyone “safe.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear