Quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

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

There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

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.

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

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.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

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

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.

If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.

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.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

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.