Elizabeth Gilbert citáty

„Neomlouvej se za pláč. Bez téhle emoce jsme jen roboti.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert

„Je lepší žít nedokonale vlastní osud než žít dokonale napodobeninu osudu někoho jiného.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert

„Perfekcionismus je masový vrah.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert

„Mít kreativní mysl je jako mít border kolii. Když ji dostatečně nezaměstnáte, nějakou práci si najde sama. A ta práce se vám nejspíš nebude líbit.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert

„This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Zdroj: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

„Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

This derives from a folk proverb sometimes attributed to Clementine Paddleford, but in use as an "old proverb" as early as 1908, when Paddeford was only 10 years old.
Misattributed
Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert

Zdroj: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything

„The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert

„I think I deserve something beautiful.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert

„I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love

„Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, kniha Eat, Pray, Love

Zdroj: Eat, Pray, Love