Elizabeth Gilbert quotes

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.