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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

“You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over… himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“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.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that—merely by being here—you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“David was catnip and kryptonite to me.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“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.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“the only thing you need to
do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do
know the answer”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then - with great forgiveness and fortitude - dismissing them.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“the beauty of doing nothing”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: The sweetness of doing nothing.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“You don’t need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love