Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth M. Gilbertis an American author, essayist, short story writer, biographer, novelist, and memoirist. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which as of December 2010 has 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1969
CityWaterbury, CT
CountryUnited States of America
selfish thinking people
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.
wise pain mistake
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.
needs sometimes bits
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
choices eat-love-pray unfortunate-circumstances
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
cryptic evident dislike
The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.
rain giving sun
I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.
sorry husband italian
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes.
swim want castles
If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.
giving-up order needs
What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?
feelings praying has-beens
Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.
faces transparent
My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.
heart light broken
Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.
italian crosses
Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)
stars moon expectations
I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is.