Elizabeth Gilbert

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

If your love is not as strong as a tidal wave, I will not be moved.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

And now my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around it. Already choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it.

My heart must be bigger than my brain – blocking it out of all my decisions, so that I cannot think past the way I feel.

When she laughed she was beautiful, when she cried she was beautiful, but, when she was determined she was sexy as hell.

The moonlight melts into lace across your thighs. Unbridled passion, an Elliott Smith vinyl, and the intimate place of you.

Love those you hate you.

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

I have simply found a way of loving through whatever absences or dejections have fallen like tree branches in my path.

What’s my hand without your heart to hold?