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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s because he doesn’t care! He’s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery
Elizabeth Gilbert
We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'
Elizabeth Gilbert
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.
Elizabeth Gilbert
You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
Elizabeth Gilbert
To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. 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.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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.
Elizabeth Gilbert
My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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
Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
Elizabeth Gilbert
You have no idea how strong my love is!
Elizabeth Gilbert
I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The resting place of the mind is the heart.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.
Elizabeth Gilbert