Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

They say the most important decision you make in life is your choice of a spouse. I've been lucky with that.

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. 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.

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

Geography does not define you - love does.

I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.

My reasons for coming to get married in Calcutta are complicated, and it's very hard to put it into a sentence. People ask me why. To me, it just felt like a very natural and exciting decision.

I never thought I would get married: I'm such a workaholic.

Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.

The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

My choices are like my fingerprints, they make me unique

Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

You marry somebody you love, that you feel like you want to spend the rest of your life with, that you're excited to wake up with every morning if you enjoy spending the day with. Right now... my wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.

I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening.

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitement, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring. The greater the love; the greater the tragedy when it is over

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.