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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Meditation
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More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?
Elizabeth Gilbert
I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)
Elizabeth Gilbert
The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment and suffering. We're addicted to this idea because it makes for good bio pics... but I actually think it's better to live a life where you're constantly exploring your curiosity and creativity.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no professionals. This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!
Elizabeth Gilbert
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
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
We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
Elizabeth Gilbert
My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'
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
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
I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Marriage is not a game for the young.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
Elizabeth Gilbert
He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.
Elizabeth Gilbert