Don't apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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About Elizabeth Gilbert

Portrait of Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American journalist and author. Her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010.

More quotations from Elizabeth Gilbert

You must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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There's a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I'd given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift—or curse, perhaps—of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Just because we aren't crying on the outside doesn't mean we aren't completely wrecked on the inside.

—Rachel Van Dyken

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She had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive, or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive, and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom.

—Richard Brautigan

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It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women—a new job, a new town, a divorce—which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves.

—Nadine Gordimer

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"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

—Ray Bradbury

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