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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b44daa | You are worthy, dear one, regardless of the outcome. You will keep making your work, regardless of the outcome. You will keep sharing your work, regardless of the outcome. You were born to create, regardless of the outcome. You will never lose trust in the creative process, even when you don't understand the outcome. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 41568aa | Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow. | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 6c695da | I agree--the world isn't a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort." (53)" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a132919 | Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f4f2abd | The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming i.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 099292d | The Buddha referred to married people as "householders." He even gave clear instructions as to how one should be a good householder: Be nice to your spouse, be honest, be faithful, give alms to the poor, buy some insurance against fire and flood . . . I'm dead serious: The Buddha literally advised married couples to buy property insurance." | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 294b9f8 | But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4ae7473 | When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere - wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c8274a8 | Genetic randomness had already determined how much talent I'd been allotted, and destiny's randomness would account for my share of luck. The only piece I had any control over was my discipline. Recognizing that, it seemed like the best plan would be to work my ass off. That was the only card I had to play, so I played it hard. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c04505d | I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. But you must stubbornly walk into that room, regardless, and you must hold your head high. You made it; you get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with.. | creativity hard-work individuality inspirational motivation pride support work-ethic | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a02b2da | Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 88ad175 | If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 89e988b | The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to discover those jewels--that's creative living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4577144 | I found that eating alone by the window in a quiet restaurant is one of life's greatest secret pleasures. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 38b6bdd | wknt rtb@ Hy@ lkbr tthyr shfqty dy'man , wHyn 'drkt 'n hdhh lHy@ stkwn `m qryb mn nSyby , 'stwl~ `ly lDyq | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 1e084cc | Kadini goturup mutfaga ya da suslenme odasina kapatiyor, sonra da ufkunun darligina sasiyoruz; kanatlarini kesiyoruz, sonra, ucamiyor diye yakiniyoruz. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 762dd24 | Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 5740356 | If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| af6bdd5 | To paint, to write, to engage in politics--these are not merely 'sublimations'; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 067ec58 | modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| eb3f462 | I should like this sky, this quiet water, to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 14fcc7f | And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to br.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 8b5acf3 | the thing i found offensive, the thing i hated about mohican-mountain-makers, gill-netters, poachers, whalehunters, strip-miners, herbicide-spewers, dam-erectors, nuclear-reactor-builders or anyone who lusted after flesh, meat, mineral, tree, pelt and dollar - including, first and foremost, myself - was the smug ingratitude, the attitude that assumed the world and its creatures owed us everything we could catch, shoot, tear out, alter, plun.. | David James Duncan | ||
| 96d2920 | There was an old Taoist who lived in a village in ancient China, named Master Hu. Hu loved God and God loved Hu, and whatever God did was fine with Hu, and whatever Hu did was fine with God. They were friends. They were such good friends that they kidded around. Hu would do stuff to God like call him "The Great Clod." That's how he kidded. That was fine with God. God would turn around and do stuff to Hu like give him warts on his face, wens.. | inspirational | David James Duncan | |
| 6e7e5f9 | The truth is I'm in a place without a bright side or a one best thing. I'm in a place where, honest to God, you feel you can kill your friends just by asking the names of stars. | David James Duncan | ||
| e93a95c | From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, am.. | genre horror writing | Peter Straub | |
| a768ef0 | The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 11ead9e | Mostly, however, he had books about love. He believed in studying his own heart this way. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8c17ed0 | It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 62bad39 | But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| e13e73f | My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone; she refused to occupy the features of her face. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| d537696 | What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let's be frank--fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have .. | life | Lorrie Moore | |
| 1db1bf5 | This kind of love can be thrilling and overwhelming and sometimes a hell of a lot of fun, but it is not the only "real" kind of love, nor is it always a good basis for an ongoing relationship. Yet as George Bernard Shaw famously remarked, "When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exh.. | Dossie Easton | ||
| 6cc9520 | Most people are preoccupied with survival in all its subtle forms, and so they reflect primarily fear, anger, and a desire for gain. They have not learned that the state of lovingness is the most powerful of all survival tools. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 0bd64e8 | Desire, especially strong desire (e.g., cravingness), frequently blocks our getting what we want. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| 3e3c66e | The basic rule of the psychic universe is that "like attracts like." Similarly, "love promotes love," so that the person who has let go of a lot of inner negativity is surrounded by loving thoughts, loving events, loving people, and loving pets. This phenomenon explains many scriptural quotations and common sayings that have puzzled the intellect, such as, "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer," and "Those who have, get." As a genera.. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| eeaf257 | Atticus adjusted his glasses as he peered down at the blanket. "Hey, is that the book Nellie told us about?" Jake's eyes flicked to Olivia's book. "You've got it outside in the ? Are you out of your minds?" Amy crossed her arms. "We're being careful." "It's not about careful, this is a five-hundred-year-old manuscript! You should be wearing gloves--Atticus brought some--and keeping it of the sunlight." "It didn't take you long to start b.. | atticus-rosenbloom ian-kabra jake-rosenbloom jealousy | Jude Watson | |
| 5a7cae4 | Ticket and passport. We're crossing the border." "Oh. Sorry." Dan handed the conductor his ticket. " ." " ," Dan said. "That's Spanish," Amy whispered. "No, it's ," Dan said. "I'm too tired to think." | Jude Watson | ||
| 89dda95 | That's it. Gently now," Reagan said to Nellie. "We'll move onto the hard stuff tomorrow." "This...isn't...the hard stuff?" Nellie spit out through gritted teeth. Reagan grinned. "You really hate me right now, don't you?" "Immeasurably." "Good. Give me ten." | Jude Watson | ||
| ef49dcb | The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared. "You look so macho clutching the door handle that way," he said to Hamilton. "Just...be...careful," Hamilton said through clenched teeth." | Jude Watson | ||
| 2cb28d2 | OMIGOSH JONAH WIZARD!" -Amy Cahill" | Jude Watson | ||
| 809af8e | The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'. | James C. Scott | ||
| a1a36f5 | Feelings are not just emotions that happen to you. Feelings are reactions you choose to have. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| a2c1fb0 | He always took lateness as being rude. It said to the other person that their time was more valuable than yours. | Karin Slaughter |