Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Eat, Pray, Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006.

• According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Suffering, Purpose

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.188, A&C Black

• But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ambition, Garden, Naps

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Purpose, Acquiring Things, Discovering

• Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Religious, Law, Advancement

• This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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