World Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know…

— 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

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely…Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the…

— 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

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one…

— 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

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

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart…

— 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

“The world was his divan. There was such a freedom in it.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around…

— Elizabeth Gilbert