Elizabeth Gilbert
American author whose 2006 memoir Eat Pray Love — a year-long journey through Italy, India, and Indonesia in search of pleasure, devotion, and balance — became one of the most-read and most-quoted spiritual memoirs of the twenty-first century, selling over twelve million copies in thirty languages and shaping a generation's understanding of contemplative travel, ashram life, and the contemporary spiritual journey. Born in 1969 in Waterbury, Connecticut, she has continued in Big Magic (2015) and other works to explore creativity as a spiritual practice and the relationship between fear, courage, and the creative life. She lives in New Jersey and remains one of the most distinctive voices on faith, devotion, and creative-life as spiritual practice in contemporary writing.
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Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
101 quotes“God dwells within you, as you.”
“It is OK not to know something. It is OK to ask.”
“Trust your gut. Always trust your gut.”
“Sometimes the truth comes out of left field.”
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.”
“The trees and animals do not need to apologize for their existence.”
“Pleasure has no requirements other than presence.”
“To love is to recognize that you are not alone in the universe.”
“Whatever you have, give it. Whatever you don't have, give that too.”
“Creativity is sacred, and not sacred. Both at once.”
“What we make matters enormously, and matters not at all.”
“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”
“The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.”
“Inspiration always finds a way to land in someone's lap, but you have to be the one whose lap is open.”
“Curiosity is the truth and the way of creative living.”
“If you don't have courage, you don't have anything.”
“The work is the prize.”
“Most of the magic happens in the doing.”
“Make something — anything — every day.”
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