Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I feel like the luckiest person in the world to have found what I am supposed to do and to get to do it.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.