Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

Say yes to your self. Say no to your anti-self.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.