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| 5f4675e | What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0b17a87 | But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8cb66e5 | qla shwn :"'by lt'ml Drwry lt`lm lskyn@ , bmknh f`lan 'n ynqdh Hytk , fhw y`lmk kyfa tuskn `qlk ". fltft lyhi wldh blTf qy'lan :"wlkn `qly skn 'ssan ybuny " | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7d22fed | Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history. | memoir | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c8d7f82 | As Joan Didion said, "I don't know what I think until I write about it.")" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7884309 | I even have a welcoming speech prepared for fear, which I deliver right before embarking upon any new project or big adventure. It goes something like this: "Dearest Fear: Creativity and I are about to go on a road trip together. I understand you'll be joining us, because you always do. I acknowledge that you believe you have an important job to do in my life, and that you take your job seriously. Apparently your job is to induce complete p.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c744233 | After a certain age, time just drizzles down upon your head like rain in the month of March: you're always surprised at how much of it can accumulate, and how fast. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| af027d1 | If you're alive, you're a creative person. You and I and everyone you know are descended from tens of thousands of years of makers. Decorators, tinkerers, storytellers, dancers, explorers, fiddlers, drummers, builders, growers, problem-solvers, and embellishers--these are our common ancestors. The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying. We a.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 469ffb5 | Liz: What's it like in hell? Ketut: Same like heaven. Universe is a circle, Liss. To up, to down -- all same, at end. Liz: Then how can you tell the difference between heaven and hell? Ketut: Because of how you go. Heaven, you go up, through seven happy places. Hell you go down, through seven sad places. This is why it better for you to go up, Liss. Liz: You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, sin.. | heaven hell sad | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 1f52e6f | The less you indulge yourself now, the more you can indulge yourself in the future, when you have made your fortune. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5a80a46 | The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3734a75 | The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But today nothing seemed important. He suspected that nothing had ever been important, that his mind had arbitrarily imbued projects with importance and then cunningly covered its traces. Today he saw.. | psychology psychotherapy schopenhauer | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 26fe738 | Clever, ambitious, and always in search of greater efficiency, we Americans have, in two short centuries, created a world of push button, round the clock comfort for ourselves. The basic needs of humanity - food, clothing, shelter, entertainment, transportation, and even sexual pleasure - no longer need to be personally laboured for or ritualised or even understood. All these things are available to us now for mere cash. Or credit. Which me.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| aee6170 | I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others. | nature spiritual world | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| cd0a114 | I have never learned how to arrange my face into that blank expression of competent invisibility that is so useful when traveling in dangerous, foreign places. You know--that super-relaxed, totally-in-charge expression which makes you look like you belong there, anywhere, everywhere, even in the middle of a riot in Jakarta. Oh, no. When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 29314cf | With all respect to the Buddha and to the early Christian celibates, I sometimes wonder if all this teaching about nonattachment and the spiritual importance of monastic solitude might be denying us something quite vital. Maybe all that renunciation of intimacy denies us the opportunity to ever experience that very earthbound, domesticated, dirt-under-the-fingernails gift of the difficult, long-term, daily forgiveness {...} Maybe creating a.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 178c7e1 | A woman alone always seems a little unusual; it is not true that men respect women: they respect each other through their women--wives, mistresses, "kept" women; when masculine protection no longer extends over her, woman is disarmed before a superior caste that is aggressive, sneering, or hostile. As an "erotic perversion," | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 2e8727e | Lo que es seguro es que ahora es muy dificil para las mujeres asumir a un tiempo su condicion de individuo autonomo y su destino femenino; es la fuente de estas torpezas y malestares que a veces las presenta como "un sexo perdido". Y sin duda es mas comodo sufrir la esclavitud ciega que trabajar por la liberacion: los muertos tambien estan mejor adaptados a la tierra que los vivos." | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| e66d52b | In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 94f080a | One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away. | sadness | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| fe34b8b | You should make your choices as though you were choosing on behalf of the whole of humanity, | Sarah Bakewell | ||
| c2400dc | Surviving one's own life, living on the other side of it like a spectator, is quite comfortable after all. You no longer expect anything, no longer fear anything, and every hour is like a memory. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 2c35dc2 | If you point out that they're walking in shit they scream it's you that have dirty feet. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| cc15eb4 | Men of today seem to feel more acutely than ever the paradox of their condition. They know themselves to be the supreme end to which all action should be subordinated, but the exigencies of action force them to treat one another as instruments or obstacles, as means. The more widespread their mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by uncontrollable forces. Though they are masters of the atomic bomb, yet it is created on.. | paradox | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 12b7e2d | It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| a69ea69 | The only way I know to pluck from the hearts of enemies their desire to destroy us is to remove from their lives the sense that, for their own physical and spiritual survival, they must. | David James Duncan | ||
| 21adac3 | To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, "May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me." | nature religion religious-freedom spirituality | David James Duncan | |
| e8dc72e | The mind will say this forever. But I mostly fish rivers these dayas. In so doing, movement becomes stasis, flux is the constant, and everything flows around, through, and beyond me, escaping ungrasped, unnamed, and unscathed. The river's clean escape does not prevent belief in its reality. On the contrary, there is nothing I love more than the feel of a wholeness sliding toward, around, and past me while I stand like an idiot savant in its.. | David James Duncan | ||
| c797364 | Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry. | David James Duncan | ||
| 5816381 | Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within us, the capacity to conceptualize, objectify and find patterns, thereby to create the flow of events and perceptions that find perfect expression in fiction. We are built this way, we create stories by reflex, unstoppably. But this elegant system really works best when the elements of the emerging .. | genre horror storytelling writing | Peter Straub | |
| 16c5830 | Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 07f7e58 | Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled. | people-today settling | Lorrie Moore | |
| 8e55c73 | Things, however, rarely happened the way you understood them. Mostly they just sort of drove up alongside what you thought was the case and then moved randomly down some other way. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 81df735 | I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty toward her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years in my helpless memory, the skin growing around; what else can memory do? It can do nothing; It pretends to eat the shrapnel of your acts, yet it cannot swallow or chew. | memory | Lorrie Moore | |
| 92de647 | We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| c5f74b9 | She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked at the attractive women he would look at...She had become him: she longed for these women. But she was also herself, and so she despised them. She lusted after them, but she also wanted to beat them up. A rapist. She had become a rapist, driving to work in a car. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 63d4378 | But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the extra moon that is circling the earth unbeknownst to science. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| a368008 | I cried for everyone and for all the scrabbly, funny love one sent out into the world like some hit song that enters space and bounds off to another galaxy, a tune so pretty you think the words are true, you do! | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 7810bd3 | All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love--some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| b0ddcf0 | Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal | Keith Richards | ||
| 365350e | If we dump our negative feelings on others, they experience it as an attack and they, in turn, are forced to suppress, express, or escape the feelings; therefore, the expression of negativity results in the deterioration and destruction of relationships. A far better alternative is to take responsibility for our own feelings and neutralize them. Then, only positive feelings remain to be expressed. | David R. Hawkins | ||
| c8c2567 | Angela Carter...refused to join in rejecting or denouncing fairy tales, but instead embraced the whole stigmatized genre, its stock characters and well-known plots, and with wonderful verve and invention, perverse grace and wicked fun, soaked them in a new fiery liquor that brought them leaping back to life. From her childhood, through her English degree at the University of Bristol where she specialised in Medieval Literature, and her expe.. | Marina Warner | ||
| d437e27 | There's someone in town asking for directions to Bhaile Anois," she said. "He checked in late last night at the inn." Any and Dan exchanged uneasy glances. "What does he look like?" Amy asked. Fiona narrowed her eyes. "Sneaky, for certain," she said. "And he's quite a waster. Good for nothin' but complaining. Nora over at the inn said he's never satisfied with the temperature if his tea, and he asked for a cashmere throw in his room." Any a.. | amy-cahill dan-cahill humor ian-kabra | Jude Watson | |
| 6e5d892 | Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it. | the-mummy | Max Allan Collins |