Elizabeth Gilbert quotes - page 6

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don't know when you'll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later-again, for its own mysterious reasons. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands. View quote
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Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss. View quote
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Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
What worked yesterday doesn't always work today. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it. View quote
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If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now. View quote
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Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair. View quote
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the beauty of doing nothing. View quote
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You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place. View quote
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If you're alive, you're a creative person. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert