Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Time, Give, Away

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Society, Yourself, Against

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, Making, Stand

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

Life, Wisdom, Mistakes

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Great, Passion

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Human, Happen, Creativity

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Work, Care

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

Best, Husband, Friend

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

Love, Family, Alone

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

Love, Time, Happy

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, Married, Though

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

Woman, Become, Role

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Cool, Character, Person

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

Age, Amazing, Long

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Work, Hard, Rigid

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, Light, Toward

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

Life, Love, Before

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Character, Pleaser

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Saying, Afraid, Dislike

I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Best, Creative, Possible

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

While, Read, Sleeping

If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Speak, Voice, Heard

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage, Romantic, Political

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Great, Simple, Human

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Nationality: American

Born: July 18, 1969

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