#your

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bad #belongs #contract #discover #doomed

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

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#assemble #content #depressed #end #i

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#around #change #changes #easier #field

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#completely #demonstrate #depend #depends #science

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. ↗

— William Gilbert

#blow #bound #chance #enhance #haven

Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense. ↗

— Paul Gleason

#call #certain #confidence #foremost #job

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. ↗

— Owen Glendower

#cousin #dread #fortune #good #good fortune

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#body #face #feel #form #hearing

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#allow #audience #form #four #happen