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

Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert
Motivational for Women About Dreams

There’s always another level up. There’s always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

— Elizabeth Gilbert
Positive for Women Growth Mindset Compassion

There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny’s molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.

— 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

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

What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then – with great forgiveness and fortitude – dismissing them.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches!

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

— 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

We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing – your sense of division from God.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination – the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it’s working on you.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

— Elizabeth Gilbert
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