Elizabeth Gilbert Cool & famous Quotes by

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.

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• Relationships

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

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• Life

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...

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• Love

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

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• Life

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

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• Motivational

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

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• Life

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

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• Humor

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

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• Love

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

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• Inspirational

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

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• Love

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

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• Love

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

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• Wisdom

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

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• Love

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

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• Inspirational

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.

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• Happiness

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

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• Inspirational

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?

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• Love

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.

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• Life Lessons

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?

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• Relationships

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

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• Faith

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

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• Happiness

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.

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• Inspirational

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.

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• Life

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

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• Love

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

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• Love

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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• Love

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

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• Life

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

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• Love

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

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• Inspirational