Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
born 1969 United States
Elizabeth M. Gilbert (born 18 July 1969) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, biographer, and memoirist.
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child — and mostly on account of the Oz books.
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.
I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone.
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential.
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
To find the balance you want, [Ketut spoke through his translator] this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.
He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer. But this figure had four legs, and no head. Where the head should have been, there was only a wild foliage of ferns and flowers. There was a small, smiling face drawn over the heart.
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
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