Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly designed to live in collaboration with inspiration, and inspiration is still trying to find you—the same way it hunted down your ancestors.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You have to stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought ta be.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. 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's holding you back, the person who brings you to your 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 they leave.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Your tears are my prayers.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The Kundalini Shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

... you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency, and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

— Elizabeth Gilbert