Love Quotes Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“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.”

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

“One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.”

““How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"”

““Nobody knows you.”

“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”

“Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.”