--- title: "18 Every day Quotes By Elizabeth Gilbert" description: "18 Every day quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert. Plus more from Elizabeth Gilbert and more Every day sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9de/elizabeth-gilbert-131_awareness_as-far-as-we-know-we-are-the-only-specie_2505921.jpg" --- > [As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/as-far-as-we-know-we-are-the-only-species-on-the-planet-who-have-been/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9de/elizabeth-gilbert-131_awareness_as-far-as-we-know-we-are-the-only-specie_2505921.jpg) > [Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/every-day-when-you-wake-up-ask-yourself-what-do-i-really-really/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/876/elizabeth-gilbert-131_ask-yourself_every-day-when-you-wake-up-ask-yourself_2285813.jpg) > [Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/now-imagine-a-life-in-which-every-day-a-person-is-presented-with-not/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/elizabeth-gilbert-131_advantage_now-imagine-a-life-in-which-every-day-a_527701.jpg) > [I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-push-every-day-against-forces-that-say-you-have-to-go-faster-be/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/595/elizabeth-gilbert-131_every-day_i-push-every-day-against-forces-that-say_610016.jpg) > [You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/you-need-to-learn-how-to-select-your-thoughts-just-the-same-way-you/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c5/elizabeth-gilbert-131_change_you-need-to-learn-how-to-select-your-tho_2485484.jpg) > [We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/we-alter-and-customize-the-thing-every-century-every-generation-every/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94f/elizabeth-gilbert-131_accepting_we-alter-and-customize-the-thing-every-c_82835.jpg) > [I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-think-when-you-are-an-aspiring-writer-you-must-write-every-day-it-s/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e4/elizabeth-gilbert-131_aspiring-writers_i-think-when-you-are-an-aspiring-writer_803692.jpg) > [There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/there-s-a-wonderful-old-italian-joke-about-a-poor-man-who-goes-to/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/elizabeth-gilbert-131_begging_there-s-a-wonderful-old-italian-joke-abo_1695686.jpg) > [I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-decide-every-day-that-i-love-creativity-enough-to-accept-that-fear/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f62/elizabeth-gilbert-131_accepting_i-decide-every-day-that-i-love-creativit_1574524.jpg) > [“It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/it-s-also-important-to-read-the-newspaper-every-day-to-see-how-the/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5a/elizabeth-gilbert-131_culture-identity_it-s-also-important-to-read-the-newspape_2804997.jpg) > [“Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/groceries-you-need-to-learn-how-to-select-your-thoughts-just-the-same/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbb/elizabeth-gilbert-131_control_groceries-you-need-to-learn-how-to-selec_440638.jpg) > [We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/we-gallop-through-our-lives-like-circus-performers-balancing-on-two/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf9/elizabeth-gilbert-131_circus_we-gallop-through-our-lives-like-circus_1639257.jpg) > [“This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/this-sadness-is-one-of-the-great-trials-of-the-human-experiment-as/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44b/elizabeth-gilbert-131_death_this-sadness-is-one-of-the-great-trials_1493941.jpg) > [“Show up for your own life, he said. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/show-up-for-your-own-life-he-said-don-t-pass-your-days-in-a-stupor/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/414/elizabeth-gilbert-131_bare-feet_show-up-for-your-own-life-he-said-don-t_2443864.jpg) > [“The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/the-philosopher-odo-marquard-has-noted-a-correlation-in-the-german/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f1/elizabeth-gilbert-131_doubt_the-philosopher-odo-marquard-has-noted-a_2526325.jpg) > [“Revere your senses; don't degrade them with drugs, with depression, with willful oblivion. Try to notice something new every day, Eustace said.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/revere-your-senses-don-t-degrade-them-with-drugs-with-depression-with/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6db/elizabeth-gilbert-131_bare-feet_revere-your-senses-don-t-degrade-them-wi_1460402.jpg) > [“There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/there-s-a-wonderful-old-italian-joke-about-a-poor-man-who-goes-to-2/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/795/elizabeth-gilbert-131_eat-pray-love_there-s-a-wonderful-old-italian-joke-abo_2072894.jpg) > [ “And while \[we\] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/and-while-we-do-have-possibilities-that-are-vast-and-magnificent-and/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/elizabeth-gilbert-131_choice_and-while-we-do-have-possibilities-that_30637.jpg) ## Other authors on Every day ## More by Elizabeth Gilbert > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/that-s-your-friend-my-husband-is-my-best-friend-he-s-not-the-mirror/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/not-to-mention-that-i-have-finally-arrived-at-that-age-where-a-woman/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/the-buddha-taught-that-all-human-suffering-is-rooted-in-desire-don-t/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [ “And while \[we\] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/and-while-we-do-have-possibilities-that-are-vast-and-magnificent-and/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/learn-your-way-around-loneliness-make-a-map-of-it-sit-with-it-for/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/if-we-never-leave-our-house-except-to-drive-to-work-do-we-need-to-be/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-will-tell-you-why-we-have-these-extraordinary-minds-and-souls-miss/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/both-the-five-year-olds-looked-at-me-with-bewilderment-and-a-bit-of/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/clearing-out-all-your-misery-gets-you-out-of-the-way-you-cease-being/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/the-ingredients-of-both-darkness-and-light-are-equally-present-in-all/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-was-full-of-a-hot-powerful-sadness-and-would-have-loved-to-burst/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-live-in-nature-where-everything-is-connected-circular-the-seasons/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/his-spelling-was-several-degrees-beyond-arbitrary-and-his-punctuation/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/before-you-realize-this-truth-say-the-yogis-you-will-always-be-in/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) > [I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-actually-have-a-great-deal-of-respect-for-antidepressants-i-think/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/every-day/elizabeth-gilbert/#itemlist", "name": "18 Every day Quotes By Elizabeth Gilbert", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. 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And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: “I know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job really well! I will never ask you to leave me alone or to be silent, because you have a right to speak your own voice, and I know that you will never leave me alone or be silent, anyhow. 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Tomorrow, we expect that the pope will not be so tired as he was today.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth Gilbert" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/it-s-also-important-to-read-the-newspaper-every-day-to-see-how-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5a/elizabeth-gilbert-131_culture-identity_it-s-also-important-to-read-the-newspape_2804997.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5a/elizabeth-gilbert-131_culture-identity_it-s-also-important-to-read-the-newspape_2804997.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5a/elizabeth-gilbert-131_culture-identity_it-s-also-important-to-read-the-newspape_2804997.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. 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Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth Gilbert" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/we-gallop-through-our-lives-like-circus-performers-balancing-on-two/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf9/elizabeth-gilbert-131_circus_we-gallop-through-our-lives-like-circus_1639257.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf9/elizabeth-gilbert-131_circus_we-gallop-through-our-lives-like-circus_1639257.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf9/elizabeth-gilbert-131_circus_we-gallop-through-our-lives-like-circus_1639257.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot…” — Elizabeth Gilbert", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift - or curse, perhaps - of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth Gilbert" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/this-sadness-is-one-of-the-great-trials-of-the-human-experiment-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44b/elizabeth-gilbert-131_death_this-sadness-is-one-of-the-great-trials_1493941.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44b/elizabeth-gilbert-131_death_this-sadness-is-one-of-the-great-trials_1493941.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44b/elizabeth-gilbert-131_death_this-sadness-is-one-of-the-great-trials_1493941.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. 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Notice what food tastes like; notice what the detergent aisle in the supermarket smells like and recognize what those hard chemical smells do to your senses; notice what bare feet fell like; pay attention every day to the vital insights that mindfulness can bring. And take care of all things, of every single thing there is - your body, your intellect, your spirit, your neighbours, and this planet. 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Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. 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We are susceptible to emotional uncertainties and neuroses that are probably not very common among the Hmong, but that run rampant these days among my contemporaries in, say, Baltimore. The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice...Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision. By choosing Door Number Three, we fear we have killed off a different -- but equally critical piece of our soul that could only have been made manifest by walking through Door Number One or Door Number Two. ...Two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our lives. Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order. In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. Or we become compulsive comparers - always measuring our lives against some other person's life, secretly wondering if we should have taken her path instead. Compulsive comparing, of course, only leads to debilitating causes of \"life envy\": the certainty that somebody else is much luckier than you, and that if only you had her body, her husband, her children, her job, everything would be easy and wonderful and happy. 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