Quote

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

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
Transform
Beach
Answer
Ready
Answers
Call
Change
Going

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Image
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
Image
Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
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
Image
I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
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
Image
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
Image
My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
What do I believe that I deserve in this life?
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I said, It seems like you have fond feelings toward your ex-wife. Are you two still close? Nah, he said casually. She thinks I changed my name to Motherfucker.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
the beauty of doing nothing
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity but he always does that.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.
Elizabeth Gilbert