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
understanding saying-yes way
Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.
best-love strong love-is
You have no idea how strong my love is!
love leaving impossible
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
past thinking fire
I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was a deliberately set fire, and then a whole chain of information became malevolent.Criminal past - that worked all in their favor to create this "monster" - and they even used the word "monster." It's like, let's ensure that the public thinks he's an evil individual.
dirty mind faces
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.
men demon
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
running reflection water
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
inspirational travel sacrifice
to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
caring media phases
I was just really appalled, and I really kept quiet until I saw the governor [Rick Perry] get on and repeat the same words that the prosecution had used in the penalty phase: that he [Todd Willingham] was a monster. And that got me to get on to the computer and connect with some of the media and say: "I have his letters. He wasn't a monster. He was a caring individual." Let them see another side.
joy want-u
God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.
two world bliss
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
distance writing thinking
When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that.
kind trauma ability
I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.
metaphor instruction
Life's metaphors are God's instructions.