Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
ELIZABETH GILBERTI 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.”
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
-
-
I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn’t. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
I am the planet’s most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
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 -
I was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he’s not a person who is going to give you respect if you don’t deserve it just because you say something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
ELIZABETH GILBERT -
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT