Elizabeth Gilbert

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.