Quote

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Inspiring
Hero
Beings
Journey
Simply
Human
Humans

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Image
I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
he was still my romantic hero and I was still his living dream
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
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.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
There's nothing special about your fear.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
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.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Elizabeth Gilbert