"Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations……" — Elizabeth Gilbert
"Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be."
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507 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
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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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