Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.348, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, Energy, Tofu

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, Settling, Scene

• What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving Up, Order, Needs

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2014

• There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Son, Italian, Winning

• Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Giving, Attention

• I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Giving Up, Religion

• I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Stay Strong, Powerful, Fall

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

• But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Sleep, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

• 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

  Giving, People, Loner

• True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Night, Giving

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.18, A&C Black

• What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Believe, Giving

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

• We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, Trying, Window

• Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crazy, Addiction, Giving

• I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Rain, Giving, Sun

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Kids, Play, Giving

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Persistence, Your Side

• When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Years, Giving, Dignity

  "Confessions of an over-giver" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.

• Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that much thought. Men come into it with reluctance about being capsized or trapped or whatever their fear is. When you check in later, women are disappointed because their expectations have not come to pass, and men are pleasantly surprised.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Expectations, Giving

  Source: www.goodreads.com

• I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, "I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I'm going to give you this assignment." You have to create it yourself or it's never going to happen.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Thinking, Phones

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

• Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving Up, Important, Clarity

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

• I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving, Authority, Persons

• I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, Giving, Watches

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