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
mistake pick-yourself-up made
Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
baby creativity thinking
I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.
meant-to-be
Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
falling-in-love clever people
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.
appreciation anchors humanity
The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.
creativity giving attention
Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.
dog book feet
There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
spiritual teacher home
I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'
leaving novel
You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.
giving settling scene
If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.
bored people boring
The only boring people I know are bored people.
jobs pieces might
Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.
heart reality broken
The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.
perfectionism efficient
Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.