Ifs Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression -…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Never go into debt to become a writer. Always find other ways to support yourself so you can do the work you…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There was really only one person who - and I remember to this day - he was a fireman, and he said,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I see women who have this struggle between what they know is right, what they know is necessary, what they know is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Maybe it's just…

— 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