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
self finals infatuation
You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.
hard-work self accountability
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
selfish people selfishness
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
husband sacrifice self
the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.
self-esteem thinking resentment
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
destiny self play
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
selfish thinking people
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.
believe writing self
As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.
writing dna self
When you write a novel, there's a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you're less self-conscious about how you're presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.
children self house
If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.
yoga self inner-peace
We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
self-worth once-upon-a-time never-forget
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
finally traveler until
Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.
conclusion continue elasticity lifetime order
Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.