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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e494384 | In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1393630 | My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitated by this idea of the chakras, that he wanted to actually see them in a dissected human body in order to believe they existed. But after a particularly transcendent meditative experience, he came away with a new understanding of it. He said,'Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human bein.. | inspirational | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4df1415 | rwm l ttnfs m` 'Hd .rwm ttfrj `l~ lhrj wlmrj mn dwn 'yW t'thWr , wk'nh tqwl : mhm f`ltm , 'bq~ 'n rwm . | novel rome | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 2960449 | Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 64043b4 | mn sh'n lsjwd 'n ySbH brdan wyGrq fy lmll lm'lwf n trkt ntbhk ysht `nh . wlkn n HfZt `l~ trkyzk , fnk ttHml bdhlk msw'wly@ lHfZ `l~ rwHk | novel prostration soul | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 9d5625f | In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work ... | god | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| dcf91d2 | But the Greeks and the Romans both believed in the idea of an external daemon of creativity--a sort of house elf, if you will, who lived within the walls of your home and who sometimes aided you in your labors. The Romans had a specific term for that helpful house elf. They called it your genius--your guardian deity, the conduit of your inspiration. Which is to say, the Romans didn't believe that an exceptionally gifted person was a genius;.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e19a1f1 | Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e921eb8 | lsh`wr bldhnb lys sw~ khd`h mn l'n lj`lk t`tqdyna bi'nki tuHrzyna tqdman 'khlqyan ,l tq`y fy hdh lfkh y`zyzty | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 54ffd66 | Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2415e49 | Because without that source of wonder, I know that I am doomed. Without it, I will forever wander the world in a state of bottomless dissatisfaction--nothing but a howling ghost, trapped in a body made of slowly deteriorating meat. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9dbfccc | This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions. | exhaustion life women | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 9a5fca1 | How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they can always lean on during a metaphysical crisis, or a moment of doubt about their relevancy - If I have done nothing else in this life, then at least I have raised my children well. But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continui.. | elizabeth-gilbert memoir virginia-woolf | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 499a429 | She felt simultaneously relieved and burdened: relieved of all her old questions; burdened by the answers. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 127b3fe | Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 834d991 | Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 01f151e | If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cee7130 | Forever was never as long as you thought it was. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| e779191 | In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business or profession that their wives require them to be successful, it is because they alone embody transcendence that their wives wish to rob them of it by taking charge... | marriage truth | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 1953e43 | Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 810625b | The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is never the given that confers superiorities: 'virtue', as the ancients called it, is defined on the level of 'that which depends on us'. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| f490a3d | All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and obedience, and this obedience of a thousand little unsuspected muscles was in itself a miracle. Why ask for more? | life | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| d22409d | Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 2b9d85b | The thing I understood least of all was that knowledge led to despair and damnation. Our spiritual mentor had not said that those bad books had given a false picture of life: if that had been the case, he could easily have exposed their falsehood; the tragedy of the little girl whom he had failed to bring to salvation was that she had made a premature discovery of the true nature of reality. Well, anyhow, I thought, I shall discover it myse.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 428e3ea | There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 62cd6aa | maintenant je n'ai plus de regrets,parce que les choses qui n'existent pas pour moi,il me semble qu'elles n'existent absolument pas. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 012b91e | I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there's the true, preestablished balance. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 56979f4 | The validity of the cook's work is to be found only in the mouths of those at her table; she needs their approbation, demands that they appreciate her dishes and call for second helpings; she is upset if they are not hungry, to the point that one wonders whether the fried potatoes are for her husband or her husband for the fried potatoes. | feminism second-sex women | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| c259937 | Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true. | David James Duncan | ||
| e8ac71a | To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe. A piece of the universe? A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him. | Peter Straub | ||
| e2661ad | I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other. | Victoria Finlay | ||
| 04740d3 | Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| b672629 | Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 67f0995 | Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected change of the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same regardless. | lorrie-moore luck | Lorrie Moore | |
| 1e0db5a | One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 6a273e5 | Like everyone he knew, he could discern the hollowness in people's charm only when it was directed at someone other than himself. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| a21f1c6 | You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| cbbc468 | In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 58a1e10 | That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them | poets writers writing | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 458899b | You may remember that on earth--though of course we never confessed it--the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them. | don-juan-in-hell | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 1ed0b41 | HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper? MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge... | language | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 80d54c5 | When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| b4cdb6e | We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society must always draw a line somewhere between allowable conduct and insanity or crime, in spite of the risk of mistaking sages for lunatics and saviours for blasphemers. We must persecute, even to the death; and all we can do to mitigate the danger of persecution is, first, to be very careful what we persecute, and second, to.. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 9bdbc26 | A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid. | Keith Richards |