Elizabeth Gilbert

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- 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

"People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you’re fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But 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."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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

"When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place."

- 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

"The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"If you’re alive, you’re a creative person."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”"

- 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

"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Don’t ever be ashamed of loving the strange things that make your weird little heart happy."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. 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

"At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because stuff worked out. They got that way because stuff went wrong, and they handled it."

- 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

"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something."

- 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."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"If you only get 15 minutes alone in a stairwell with your creativity, grab it and make the most of it."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"You are afraid of surrender because you don't want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety."

- 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

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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

"What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Having a child is like getting a tattoo ... on your face. You better be committed."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"We must take care of our families wherever we find them."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Angels remind us that even in the face of adversity, we have the power to choose love over fear."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- 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. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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 have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings."

- 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

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow1this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But 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. 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. 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

"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

"Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Love yourself enough to follow your passions."

- 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."

- 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

"Live a life more strongly driven by curiosity than by fear"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"You’re afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety."

- 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

"Grief has its own time frame. It has its own itinerary with you. It has its own power over you, and it will come when it comes."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Disappointment is an opportunity to dig deeper within yourself and discover the strength to persevere."

- 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

"What worked yesterday doesn’t always work today."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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

"I think I deserve something beautiful."

- 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

"The Bhagavad Gita–that ancient Indian Yogic text–says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection."

- 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

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"If you're alive, you're a creative person."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

""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. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. 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

""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

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

""If you're alive, you're a creative person.""

- Elizabeth Gilbert