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title: "39 Persons Quotes By Elizabeth Gilbert"
description: "39 Persons quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert. Plus more from Elizabeth Gilbert and more Persons sayings from other authors."
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> [I am a better person when I have less on my plate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-am-a-better-person-when-i-have-less-on-my-plate/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [If you're alive, you're a creative person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/if-you-re-alive-you-re-a-creative-person/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-never-wanted-to-be-the-person-that-waited-for-a-stranger-to-come-to/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-ve-never-seen-any-life-transformation-that-didn-t-begin-with-the/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/a-true-soul-mate-is-probably-the-most-important-person-you-ll-ever/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/but-never-again-use-another-person-s-body-or-emotions-as-a-scratching/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/the-four-virtues-a-person-needs-in-order-to-be-safe-and-happy-in-life/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-m-still-aspiring-to-be-a-better-and-better-person-but-i-think-that/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [ I can see how the authorities could not like Todd \[ Willingham\], because he's not a person who is going to give… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-can-see-how-the-authorities-could-not-like-todd-willingham-because/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [ When I read the article \[in The New Yorker\] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/when-i-read-the-article-in-the-new-yorker-by-david-grann-i-was-very/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-had-always-been-taught-that-the-pursuit-of-happiness-was-my-natural/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-should-just-put-it-bluntly-because-we-re-all-sort-of-friends-here/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/just-having-walked-into-a-prison-environment-sat-there-for-two-hours/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/there-are-times-when-the-only-access-i-have-to-the-truest-person-that/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/desiring-another-person-is-perhaps-the-most-risky-endeavor-of-all-as/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/every-woman-deserves-a-man-that-can-make-her-heart-forget-that-it-was-2/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/there-s-a-part-of-me-which-has-always-wanted-to-hear-a-man-say-let-me/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-have-good-idea-for-if-you-meet-some-person-from-different-religion/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/that-is-who-barack-obama-is-a-person-of-admirable-character-and-that/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/god-isn-t-interested-in-watching-you-enact-some-performance-of/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/people-always-fall-in-love-with-the-most-perfect-aspects-of-each/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/your-problem-is-you-don-t-understand-what-that-word-means-people/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/in-the-modern-industrialized-western-world-where-i-come-from-the/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/marriage-becomes-hard-work-once-you-have-poured-the-entirety-of-your/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [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/)

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> [When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/when-i-get-lonely-these-days-i-think-so-be-lonely-liz-learn-your-way/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/people-will-always-want-intimacy-with-one-chosen-person-and-you/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/the-six-elements-of-her-fail-proof-broken-heart-curing-treatment/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/a-true-soul-mate-is-a-mirror-the-person-who-shows-you-everything-that-2/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/unfenced-by-law-the-unmarried-lover-can-quit-a-bad-relationship-at/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [I have more compassion than if I had led a life where everything worked out exactly as I had planned or if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-have-more-compassion-than-if-i-had-led-a-life-where-everything/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/when-you-have-only-two-minutes-to-say-good-bye-to-the-person-you-love/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/travel-is-similar-to-therapy-you-can-go-to-the-best-psychologist-in/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/you-know-i-think-that-allowing-somebody-one-mere-person-to-believe/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [ \[My friend and I\] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/my-friend-and-i-decided-we-ll-go-to-corsicana-and-we-ll-see-what-the/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/writing-is-not-like-dancing-or-modeling-it-s-not-something-where-if/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [There was really only one person who - and I remember to this day - he was a fireman, and he said,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/there-was-really-only-one-person-who-and-i-remember-to-this-day-he/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/i-think-how-badly-things-can-go-wrong-in-our-judicial-system-all-it/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/this-person-had-arrived-he-had-illuminated-her-he-had-ensorcelled-her/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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## Other authors on Persons

## 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/)

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