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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e84f09 | Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question. I guess you're supposed to put them around someone. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 5b27857 | Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ad9b956 | Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 60ef454 | Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And seco.. | food humor pleasure travel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ddee995 | The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident. | spirituality upanishads | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ea3ed0c | failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f2e5457 | We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme Self who is eternally at peace. That supreme Self is our true identity, universal and divine. Before yo.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 12f2acc | But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time." "You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6bec9d8 | Let people have their opinions. More than that--let people love their opinions, just as you and I are in love with ours. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 14e9c68 | There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. | elizbeth-gilbert love pray | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| cf093e5 | we may fall victim to the misconception that time will heal all wounds and that eventually everything will shake itself out. But as we get older, we learn this sad truth: some things can never be fixed. Some mistakes can never be put right--not by the passage of time, and not by our most fervent wishes, either. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8fb79a2 | most marriages are neither heavenly nor hellish, but vaguely purgatorial. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6e23832 | She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2390b7f | Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3761a53 | too many maniacs not enough michelangelos | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ca64d2e | It all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever--or not?" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 19ede69 | Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss. | rituals | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 0c44143 | how could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3dafd61 | I want to learn how to speak Italian. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f33072a | It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us. | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 566ccc2 | lm ynqdhny 'myr , bl knt 'n mdyr@ `mly@ nqdhy | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d957a1d | What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 54d1f00 | Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live. | hope inspirational life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| d4f6839 | Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. From the distant past to the unknowable future, my mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. This in itself is not necessarily a problem; the problem is the emotional attachment that goes along with the thi.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 20b8f10 | However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off, mainly in consequence of the antagonism between the ills of the body and the ills of the mind. If we are in great bodily pain, or the pain lasts a long time, we become indifferent to other troubles; all we think about is to get well. In the same way great mental suffering makes us insensible to bodily pain; we despise it; nay, if it shoul.. | pessimism schopenhauer studies-in-pessimism suicide | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 09e8c65 | As Nietzsche said, "If we have our own 'why' of life, we shall get along with any 'how." | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 014d4e1 | Why, you may ask, take on this unpleasant, frightening subject? Why stare into the sun? Why not follow the advice of the venerable dean of American psychiatry, Adolph Meyer, who, a century ago, cautioned psychiatrists, 'Don't scratch where it doesn't itch'? Why grapple with the most terrible, the darkest and most unchangeable aspect of life? ... Death, however, DOES itch. It itches all the time; it is always with us, scratching at some inne.. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 39dfa6a | A cosmic perspective always attenuates tragedy. If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 026b6cf | Je crois que je comprends bien comment ca peut te faire. Nous avons essayee de batir notre amour par-dela les instants, mais seuls les instants sont surs. Pour le reste on a besoin de foi; et la foi, est-ce courage ou paresse? | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 1ce61cc | It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand it. There | Sarah Bakewell | ||
| d581ae9 | My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. | excruciation joy | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 9d4ae74 | Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we'll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn't mean we'll get turned into witches. You can't avoid getting zapped, but you can avoid passing the mean energy on. That's the interesting thing about witches, the challenge of them-- learning not to hit back, or hit somebody else, when they zap you. You can bury the zap, for instance, like the gods buried the Titans in the center of the earth... | David James Duncan | ||
| 9562754 | I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there. | Peter Straub | ||
| 347fd6e | I tell them dance begins when a moment of hurt combines with a moment of boredom. I tell them it's the body's reaching, bringing air to itself. I tell them that it's the heart's triumph, the victory speech of the feet, the refinement of animal lunge and flight, the purest metaphor of tribe and self. It's life flipping death the bird. I make this stuff up. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8f2a5dd | Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| a58e393 | This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grow sarcastic. | love sacrasm | Lorrie Moore | |
| f4daaaf | I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| a2a57ab | Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn't bravery at all. It is automatic, unflinching, a mix of man and machine, consuming and unquestionable obligation meeting illness move for move in a giant even-steven game of chess - an unending round of something that looks like shadowboxing, though between love and death, which is the shadow? "Everyone admires us for our courage," says one ma.. | courage death death-and-love death-and-sickness death-of-a-loved-one illness love | Lorrie Moore | |
| 99b2489 | I wondered about the half-life of regret. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 2111f51 | You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex? | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 91f21f5 | Common people do not pray; they only beg. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| c2de9fa | I try to follow his example, not to imitate him. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 6928290 | The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car. | morality | George Bernard Shaw | |
| baaca4a | HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly. NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well. | esl language language-learning pronunciation | George Bernard Shaw |