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“The universe loves us back. It loves us back in ways we cannot understand.”
“You are the architect of your own labyrinth.”
“Every traveler is a poet looking for a country.”
“The Italians have invented the most expressive way of saying everything: 'Niente.'”
“You can't soothe a wild thing into being domestic.”
“Dolce far niente — the sweetness of doing nothing.”
“Devotion is the most beautiful kind of practice.”
“To be a yogi is to commit to the long path of becoming.”
“In the ashram, the food is the prayer, and the prayer is the food.”
“Mantra is the rope. The mind is the climber.”
“Sit. Breathe. Don't move. Don't run away.”
“Yoga is the art of withdrawing the senses, the eight limbs of practice.”
“In Bali, every walk is a prayer.”
“The Balinese have a saying: God is dancing in everything.”
“To love a place is to walk in it.”
“Sometimes the greatest journey is to your own kitchen.”
“Let it go. Let it all go.”
“Marriage is the slow and patient construction of a life that fits two souls.”
“Devotion is what is left when desire has gone.”
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