Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert

Author, Memoirist

Elizabeth Gilbert is a bestselling author known for her memoir 'Eat, Pray, Love,' which explores themes of self-discovery and creativity.

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Born
July 18, 1969
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#436

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"Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear."

Jobs Moving Creativity
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"When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."

Lonely Loneliness Being Single
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"Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender"

Forgiveness Dear Lord Needs
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"I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be."

Country Reading Eight
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"Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear."

Fall Thinking Ego
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"I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery."

Recovery Thinking Tools
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"There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time."

Reason Eat Pray Love Book Best Eat Pray Love
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"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."

Thank You Thanksgiving Gratitude
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"The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams."

Trust Dream Hope
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"In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets."

Dark Night Men
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"The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga."

Yoga Rome Way
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"David was catnip and kryptonite to me."

Kryptonite
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"She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again."

Eye Names Worry
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"I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'"

Light Yellow Policy
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"I know what it feels like to be bruised; I know what it feels like to carry things around with you that never totally heal. There's closure and then there's stuff that's kind of like, Well, I guess it's going to be in the minivan forever. And you carry it with you and you continue on your journey with your minivan full of stuff, which I think most of us do."

Journey Thinking Forever
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"[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company."

Angel Differences Solitude
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"Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave."

Love Wall Mean
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"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."

Humility Heart Feet
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"I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other."

Hate Thinking Long
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