Frasi di Elizabeth Gilbert

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“Tu sei quello che pensi. Le tue emozioni sono schiave dei tuoi pensieri, e tu sei schiavo delle tue emozioni.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Io dico che il matrimonio è come una fortezza: il posto più sicuro dove stare finché non sei sotto attacco e, allora, diventa una trappola mortale. O come il tofu, né buono, né cattivo: a seconda di come lo cucini può diventare qualcosa di assolutamente buono o di assolutamente terribile.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Un giorno ripenserai a questo momento della tua vita come ad un dolce momento di dolore. Vedrai che eri in lutto e il tuo cuore era spezzato, ma la tua vita stava cambiando …”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“È un buon segno, avere il cuore spezzato. Significa che abbiamo provato qualcosa.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Dal centro della mia vita venne una grande fontana…”

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“Qualcuno ha detto che in America è più facile avere un presidente nero piuttosto che celibe. Credo sia vero. L'opinione pubblica è sospettosa verso chi non è sposato.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“[Riguardo il matrimonio] Per me la domanda fondamentale era: perché abbiamo ancora bisogno di un'istituzione così antiquata? L'unica risposta sensata che ho trovato è che la gente continua a innamorarsi e a desiderare di costruire un rapporto intimo con un'altra persona, che per riuscirci ha bisogno di privacy, e che per avere la privacy servono i diritti. Altrimenti, come è successo a me, il governo può arrestare l'uomo che ami e portarlo via in manette.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle…”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“«Di la verdad, di la verdad, di la verdad».”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Essere pienamente visti da qualcuno, quindi, ed essere amati comunque - questa è un'offerta umana che può rasentare il miracoloso.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.”

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“I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“If you’re alive, you’re a creative person.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, “to walk against the wind for pleasure.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do…”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“creative people always suffer from depression because we're so
super sensitive and special?”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Basically, your fear is like a mall cop who thinks he’s a Navy SEAL: He hasn’t slept in days, he’s all hopped up on Red Bull, and he’s liable to shoot at his own shadow in an absurd effort to keep everyone “safe.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Loneliness watches and sights, 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 libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that—merely by being here—you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Mangia, prega, ama - Una donna cerca la felicità

“perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.”

Elizabeth Gilbert libro Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage