"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."

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Source : Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

Elizabeth Gilbert

#Relationship Quotes #Family Quotes #Years Quotes

“I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.”
“Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.”
“It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”
“My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!”
“All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians orÂ Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - haveÂ obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to theirÂ sovereign societies.”
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
“It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.”
“Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.”

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