Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

633 quotes · Author, Memoirist

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Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Author, Memoirist

Anxious

“Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.”

Inspiring Uncomfortable Uncertainty

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Author, Memoirist

Philosophical

“The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.”

Light Balance Darkness

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Thoughtful

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”

Meant To Be

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Hopeful

“A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.”

Winning Sometimes

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Melancholic

“eventually, everything goes away.”

Loss

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Grateful

“I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.”

Thinking Writing Grandmother

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Confident

“You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life; rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.”

People Decision About Yourself

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Philosophical

“I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?”

Ideas Inspiration Motivation

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Creative

“To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.”

Mean Real Escaping

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Happy

“I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.”

Two Tattoo Stubborn

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Creative

“I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.”

Thinking Baby Creativity

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Philosophical

“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.”

Thinking Facts Lucky

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