Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Listen – of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them. – Elizabeth Gilbert
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are What are you doing now? and How are you going to beat that? And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly – that youre in battle against yourself. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that its actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. – Elizabeth Gilbert