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If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Sleep, Driving, If I Could

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Mother, Children, Tragedy

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself. So that might be creativity, family, invention, adventure, faith, service, it might be raising corgies, I don't know - Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Motivational, Love You, Adventure

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
Want, Praying, Eat Love Pray

Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Choices, Eat Love Pray, Bali Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.169, A&C Black

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Thinking, Careers, People
"Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Shoes, Haute Couture, Perfectionism

That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Husband, Thinking, Simple
"Elizabeth Gilbert Explains What Everyone Gets Wrong About ‘Soul Mates’", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2014.

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Wedding, Thinking, People
"'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Divorce, Thinking, Long

I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Giving, People, Loner

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Country, Reading, Eight

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Friendship, Husband, Inspiration
Interview with Cathi Hanauer, www.elle.com. March 23, 2009.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Mistake, Reality, Thinking
"'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Hate, Thinking, Long

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

Elizabeth Gilbert
Heart, Silence, Mind
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Giving Up, Important, Clarity
"Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Wall, Fun, Real

You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a genuine smile, those are the people who have fought the toughest battles. Because they've decided that they're not going to let anything hold them down, they're showing the world who's boss. One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Hurt, People, Laughing

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Creative, Alive, Persons
Elizabeth Gilbert (2015). “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Roles, Guardian, Autonomous
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.270, A&C Black

I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Beautiful, Stress, Years

I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Thinking, Needs, Determined

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Beautiful, People, Criticism
"Thoughts on Writing". www.elizabethgilbert.com.

You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, you’re not the puppet of the piano, you’re not the puppet of the muse, but you’re not its master, either. It’s a relationship, it’s a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Creativity, Artist, Destiny

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