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Elizabeth M. Gilbert is an American author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010 had 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. July 1969  •  Other names এলিজাবেথ গিলবার্ট
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Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

“So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“What do I believe that I deserve in this life?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“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.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Let your conscience be your guide.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Love

“But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“God is an experience of supreme love.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“God dwells within you, as you.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian… I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“You have no idea how strong my love is!”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Italian men are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

“Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“The resting place of the mind is the heart.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“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.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love