Humans Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Do you think there's any way humans can love each other without complication?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned…

— 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…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert