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
certain given opportunity
If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.
comprehend great human mine personal relationship rigor
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
anxious practice practices taught
My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.
metaphor instruction
Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
towns stranger wanted
I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!
great-love needs someday
But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.
tattooed stills fronts
I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you.
thoughtful air magic
The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions — electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate — both internal and external — our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.
faces transparent
My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.
the-end-of-the-day care ends
At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.
yellow light policy
I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
experts needs answers
I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do...
lovely evening mozzarella
A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.
numbers perfect balance
the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.