Quotes from Elizabeth Gilbert

This is what flirtation is in its purest form—a conversation held without words. Flirtation is a series of silent questions that one person asks another person with their eyes.

But I see it differently. I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear.

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey and the Book of Common Prayer." For some people, that's truly enough. For others, more drastic measures are required.

Marriage survives... because it evolves.

You are not required to save the world with your creativity. Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words; it also doesn't have to be important.

I got a mother who wasn't having it. She wasn't having a minute of my drama, which is probably the luckiest thing that ever happened to me... she was not about to raise a little candy ass. Not on her watch.

Men and women who have lived together over long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves.

si experimentas la quietud necesaria con el tiempo descubrirás que todo (lo incómodo y lo hermoso) pasa con el tiempo.

The best thing for me to do right now, I thought, would be to never have been born.

We all need something that helps us to forget ourselves for a while

Once I like a person, I can only like them always.

If a can would be kind enough to appear, I'll take it.

Jim was such a nice man. I had to give him that. (But be careful here, Angela: whenever a woman says about her suitor, He's such a nice man, you can be sure she is not in love.)

What we're doing here tonight doesn't matter a bit in the cruel scheme of the world, but we're doing it anyhow.

Perhaps creativity's greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir—something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration.

En lo que tiene fe mi hermana es en el conocimiento. Su sagrada escritura es el diccionario Oxford. Cuando inclina la cabeza sobre el texto, pasando las páginas con sus raudos dedos, está con su Dios.

One must bear what cannot be escaped.

Her prose was a hammer; Darwin's was a psalm.

This life is a tentative and difficult experiment. Sometimes there will be victory after suffering—but nothing is promised. The most precious or beautiful individual may not be the most resilient. The battle of nature is not marked by evil, but by this one mighty and indifferent natural law: that there are simply too many life forms, and not enough resources for all to survive.

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

Anything can get tedious after enough time, Angela—even watching heartbreaking acts of naked vulnerability.

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time

Perder o equilíbrio às vezes por amor faz parte de uma vida equilibrada.

Live your life as you wish, my peach, but don't let it bitch up the bloody show.