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
hate thinking long
I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.
mistake reality thinking
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
jobs moving creativity
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.
needs sometimes bits
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
mother school army
We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.
light darkness balance
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.
looks helping loving-myself
Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.
inspiring quests ends
You never know how a good quest is going to end.
inspiring believe thinking
I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold...
love heartbreak sex
Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.
years giving dignity
When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.
inspiring hero journey
There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.
special
There's nothing special about your fear.
inspiring uncomfortable uncertainty
Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.