Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes - Page 10

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• Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Marriage, Air

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• I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building or blowing my brains out with a gun might stop the suffering. but something about spending a night with a knife in my hand did it. The next morning I called my friend Susan as the sun came up, begged her to help me. I don't think a woman in the whole history of my family had ever done that before, had ever sat in the middle of the road like that and said, in the middle of her life, "I cannot walk another step further--somebody has to help me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Morning, Gun, Night

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.101, Penguin

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• Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Demon

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.236, A&C Black

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• Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Kids, Play, Giving

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Humility, Heart, Feet

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• Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sacrifice, Without Sacrifice

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Persistence, Your Side

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• The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Opposites, Focus

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Essentials, Dignity

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.97, A&C Black

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• 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 leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Wall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Thinking, Names, Two

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Share, Equal, Distress

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Facts, Lucky

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Self, Play

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.168, A&C Black

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• I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Golden Retrievers, Crosses, Form

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• Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken to pieces to me,this represents a person who gave me a complete,flawless heart. I don't need someone who makes my heart whole. Instead, I need someone who will never let me feel broken. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Mean, Men

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• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Character, Years, Perspective

  "Leadership Begins With Character" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own power. There's absolutely no way to do this without getting soaking wet or even banged up on the coral, but it's worth all the trouble because the beach here is so beautiful, so special

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Beach, Islands

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.309, A&C Black

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• All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Calm, Remember

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  America, Honor, Married

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• The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Trying, Asks

  "Elizabeth Gilbert: An Adventurer Travels Back In Time". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. January 16, 2014.

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• I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Real, Thinking, Unreal

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Things I Love, Narrators, Novelists

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Stars, Moon, Expectations

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what the relationship terms are going to be. And that's why the terms of marriage change with every century and decade. We're shaping it from the inside. Marriage endures because it evolves. Obviously it does. None of us would accept marriage on its 13th century terms, not even the most conservative people...

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, People, Doe

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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