30+ Of The Most Empowering Quotes By Elizabeth Gilbert
We are all aware of the power of words especially in times like these when we’re all soldiers in the battlefield of this psychological warfare between communities worldwide. Some of the people who are able to manifest the power of words best are our journalists – of which the name Elizabeth Gilbert is included.
The way Elizabeth Gilbert weaves words together produce some of the most notable quotes that are bound to empower you through the down times. Known worldwide for her 2006 memoir, Eat Pray Love, she still continues to carry the message to this day. Elizabeth Gilbert’s quotes are like a warm embrace of assurance and a light shower of wisdom – there when you need it most.
Related: On the note of her work Eat, Pray, Love – we have curated some of the best quotes from the piece to help you look at life with the eyes of love. Here are 50+ Profound Lessons and Quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love.
Here are 30+ Of The Most Empowering Quotes By Elizabeth Gilbert:
1.“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
2. “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
3. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
4. “To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”
5. “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.”
6. “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.”
7.“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”
8.“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
9.“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
10. “The women I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because thing worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.”
11. “It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
12. “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.”
13. “Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”
14. “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.”
15. “I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.”
16. “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?”
17. “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.”
18. “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.”
19. “I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
20. “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.”
21. “I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
22. “The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
23. “You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
24. “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.”
25. “When I get lonely these days,
I think: So BE lonely.
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.”
26. “Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
27. “It’s still two human beings trying to get along, so it’s going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
28. “At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
29. “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.”
30. “Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”
31. “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.”
32. “Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
33. “We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.”
34. “When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.”
35. “Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”
36. 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.”
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