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
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.
worry giver whole-life
My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'
vacation pleasure-seeking relax
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.
sex bad-relationship fighting
What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives togeth- er — in misery, but happy to not be apart.
country hair doors
Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.
smoking soul puff
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
men hands looks
When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.
believe i-believe i-believe-in
I believe in a magnificent God.
home energy devotion
Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential,