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“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?” (Committed Quotes)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“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
Committed
“Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimate secrets of your marriage.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I’ve overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“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.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“It’s so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it’s been polluted.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“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.” (Committed Quotes)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistinguishable 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
Committed
“Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family’s history.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful and so rewarding.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“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.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. 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.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“There is a hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.” (Committed Quotes)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“What all couples have ever wanted, a little bit of privacy in which to practice all manners of love.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“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 log jammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
“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.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Committed
