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
thinking facts lucky
As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.
dark definitions faces
Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
pain meditation feelings
in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.
dog night misunderstood
The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.
girl mother growing-up
I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
cells sitting next
Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.
comic okay ifs
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
insecurity pleasure deserve
Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.
liz meat vegetarian
But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.
world sometimes disaster
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
beautiful italian years
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)
heart humility looks
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.
beautiful old-things library
library is a beautiful old thing
earth ifs
If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.