Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“it feels like a precious wound, like a heartbreak you won’t let go of because it hurts too good. We all want… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
