Top 96 Elizabeth Gilbert Love Quotes
#1. Go back to bed so that, when the tempest comes, you'll be strong enough to deal with it. And the tempest is coming, dear one. Very soon. But not tonight.
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#2. Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.
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#3. The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership.
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#4. But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time - everything.
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#5. Both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish ...
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#7. 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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#9. The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
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#10. Real, sane, mature love - the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school - is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
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#11. How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?
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#12. The women I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.
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#13. You love new boyfriend?"
"I think so. Yes."
"Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.
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#16. 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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#17. At some point I had stopped being in love with him and had fallen in love with the story of him and me instead.
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#18. I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.
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#19. My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?
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#20. What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?
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#21. Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
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#22. 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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#24. The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs.
I love Italy.
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#25. I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.
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#26. But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.
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#27. When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don't know when you'll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.
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#28. A woman's place is in the kitchen ... sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.
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#30. What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is the only proven arbalest against superstitious thinking, or lackadaisical axioms.
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#32. The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.
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#33. I don't want to be afraid of bright colors, or new sounds, or big love, or risky decisions, or strange experiences, or weird endeavors, or sudden changes, or even failure.
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#34. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predictable of calamities.
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#35. There is a hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.
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#36. If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.
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#37. my work loves me as much as I love it - that it wants to play with me as much as I want to play with it - and that this source of love and play is boundless.
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#38. Find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with someone. Don't make your life a monument to David.
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#40. The four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.
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#41. The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
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#42. When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.
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#43. Do what you love to do, and do it with both seriousness and lightness. At least then you will know that you have tried and that - whatever the outcome - you have traveled a noble path.
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#44. To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
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#45. Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.
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#46. I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.
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#48. I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.
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#49. Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.
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#50. I love him and therefore I want to protect him
even from me, if that makes sense. I didn't want to skip any steps of preparation, or leave anything unresolved that might reemerge later to harm us
to harm him.
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#51. Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
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#52. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Something healthier."
"Like what?"
"Like love, Groceries. Like pure divine love.
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#53. I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.
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#54. I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
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#55. A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
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#56. The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.
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#58. I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
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#60. There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
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#61. For some reason, I feel the same way about you that I felt about my kids when they were small - that it wasn't their job to love me, it was my job to love them. You can decide to feel however you want to, but I love you and I will always love you.
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#63. Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away...meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny." - Wayan
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#64. Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody - really want him - it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.
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#65. But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.
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#66. Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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#67. I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do ...
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#68. I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.
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#69. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
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#70. 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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#71. When it comes to romance, I'm always behind you. I am slower. It's like you are the lightening and I am the thunder.
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#72. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...
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#75. but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured, and the violence of love, Alma thought, was sometimes the most pitiless violence of all. Her
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#76. When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.
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#77. Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.
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#78. Is no love which does not become help, taught the theologian Paul Tillich.)
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#80. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
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#81. This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I'd only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine?
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#82. The great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.
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#83. When the dust has settled years later, we might ask ourselves, "What was I thinking?" and the answer is usually: You weren't. Psychologists call that state of deluded madness "narcissistic love." I call it "my twenties.
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#84. 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?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.
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#86. What I mean is- find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with someone
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#88. 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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#89. I think it's a mighty act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, and that the world does not automatically owe them any reward, and that they are not as weak and hobbled as they may believe.
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#90. But this morning in meditation, after I heard the lion roar YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW STRONG MY LOVE IS, I came out of that meditation cave like worrior queen.
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#91. He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, and as a lifelong commitment to the search for grace and transcendence.
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#94. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.
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#95. What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.
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#96. Anyhow, what else are you going to do with your time here on earth - not make things? Not do interesting stuff? Not follow your love and your curiosity?
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