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We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.


Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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ELIZABETH GILBERT For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happi...
ELIZABETH GILBERT By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can al...
ELIZABETH GILBERT With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relatio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice te...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuing...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's alw...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don...
ELIZABETH GILBERT A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
ELIZABETH GILBERT Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids afte...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on thei...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
ELIZABETH GILBERT But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further.
AUBREY GILBERT Participants responded more quickly when the color of the odd-man-out had a different name than the ...
AUBREY GILBERT Critically, the color of this odd-man-out had either the same name as the other squares-for example,...
AUBREY GILBERT When this secondary task was of a linguistic nature, the differences in response times for stimuli i...
AUBREY GILBERT We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further. Th...
AUBREY GILBERT So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the vis...
AUBREY GILBERT The findings of our research are pretty tripped out-the idea that one's perception, or at least one'...
AUBREY GILBERT Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and clea...
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