Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth M. Gilbertis an American author, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist, and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010 has spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and which was also made into a film by the same name in 2010...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1969
CityWaterbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
love-of-my-life great-true-love
traveling is the great true love of my life
teacher school night
I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)
people creative suffering
creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?
spiritual teacher heart
My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.
war grief two
There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.
eye dust humanity
Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.
hard ifs
If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.
doing-nothing
the beauty of doing nothing
guilt alarms feels
whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off
self finals infatuation
You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.
two energy different
Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies
character order ideas
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God
moving past helping
Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.
doors civility our-relationship
Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.