Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that 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, Eat

topic:love need

“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.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

topic:life change

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

topic:happiness

“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

“never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

topic:desire

“you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

topic:thinking control

“Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

topic:romance

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