"I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
WisdomView Quote
"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.“
-Elizabeth Gilbert
posted in Wedding
Other Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
Discover more inspiring quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
"I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
WeddingView Quote
"As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
WarView Quote
"My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
SuccessView Quote
"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 you're in battle against yourself."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
SuccessView Quote
"I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there."
-Elizabeth Gilbert
SuccessView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Those are the men who will dance at your wedding."
-Guy Madison
WeddingView Quote
"I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot."
-Henry Ian Cusick
WeddingView Quote
"I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that."
-Natasha Hamilton
WeddingView Quote
"You have to make your wedding day all about you."
-DJ Jazzy Jeff
WeddingView Quote
"My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!"
-Anne Baxter
WeddingView Quote
"The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy."
-Janet Street-Porter
WeddingView Quote