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“i don't want to be marry anymore”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I want to have a lasting experience of God.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God…

— 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.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what…

— 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…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed…

— Elizabeth Gilbert