Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe

Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause.

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

All my challenges have become opportunities.

I made it a point not to graduate. I thought that was a positive, independent kind of statement.

My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.