Quote

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Demon
True
Men

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Image
Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
too many maniacs not enough michelangelos
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
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
Image
I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
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
Image
Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
Elizabeth Gilbert