"It is not we as individuals, then, who……" — Elizabeth Gilbert
"It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us."
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507 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert has 507 quotes on this site.
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come,…
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When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always…
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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There…
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Embrace the glorious mess that you are
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
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My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.
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People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the…
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I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world,…
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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that…
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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have…
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
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I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record…
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We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest…
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Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and…
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Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his…
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and…
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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own…
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