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There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Acceptance, Offering
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

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

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Stay Strong
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Romantic, Depression
"Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Being Alone
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.364, A&C Black

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Husband
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.391, A&C Black

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

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Marriage, Pregnancy
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Character
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.20, A&C Black

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

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Leaving, Impossible
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Differences
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.366, A&C Black

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Marriage, Air

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Inspirational, Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.32, A&C Black

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Clever, Fall
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.393, A&C Black

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Light, Good Friday

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Karma, Heartbreak
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Wall, Mean
"Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Sweet
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Balance, Sometimes
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.312, Bloomsbury Publishing

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Real
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.377, A&C Black

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Taken
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.52, A&C Black

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Intimacy
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.322, A&C Black

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Life, Stars
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Disappointment, Greatness

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Men, Fire
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.149, A&C Black

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Life, Romantic
"Eat, Pray, Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, 2006.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Heartbreak, Wall
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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