Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

What is genius or courage without a heart?