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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c755397 | I am sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter! 'One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time.' But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper. | Beatrix Potter | ||
| 2dd1419 | I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life. | hope loss time | Edward Gibbon | |
| ec1d517 | It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy | gibbon rome soldier | Edward Gibbon | |
| aca3a7f | Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. | Jennifer Chiaverini | ||
| 6bf3e0d | It was as if I were carrying around all the places I'd ever lived, and nothing I was seeing was just what it was - it was all of the places, all smooshed together. My bubble was fairly bursting by the time I got home, what with all that stuff crammed in there. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 1213fa5 | Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 88fdbd8 | Distract him? What the hell was I supposed to do? Strip naked and do the hula? | Julie Kenner | ||
| 207162e | We tend to have things a little bit easier than girls. And we tend to assume therefore that the world was built for us, and that we're, you know, the culmination of everything that came before us. And then we get told that having a little bit of this attitude is called balls, and that balls are good, and we kind of take it from there | Ned Vizzini | ||
| cbadb07 | You are blessed with a good mind. You just have to have confidence in it and talk when people call on you. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| cbfe71e | pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is, "who's coolest?" Do you want the Spanish Inquisition in here? you better start acting with a little sobriety, or your mother is going to put two and two together" | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 66f2bdb | When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was coo: 'Eulalia.' And like an idiot that's what I yelled off the Brooklyn Bridge: 'Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!' And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2524176 | A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 1d7bc7d | I'd feel wasted and burnt, having wasted my time and my body and my energy and y words and my soul. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 5e423d2 | I feel it in my pocket. I don't want to lose it. It's one of the only things that's making me me right now. Without my cell phone, who will I be? I won't have any friends because I don't have their numbers memorized. I'll barely have a family since I don't know their cell phone numbers, just their home line. I'll be like an animal. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 7e7c93b | Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 39006c8 | That's worst than gonerreha, man! | Ned Vizzini | ||
| fa71bd6 | I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. Adapted to freezing deep-ocean temperatures, I'd flop around down there at peace. The big concerns of my life would be what sort of bottom-coating slime to feed off of--that's not so different from now--plus I wouldn't have any natural predators; then again, I don't have any now, and that hasn't done me a whole lot of good. But it suddenly makes sense: I'd like to be under the sea, as an octopus. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 008240f | I don't want to be afraid of bright colors, or new sounds, or big love, or risky decisions, or strange experiences, or weird endeavors, or sudden changes, or even failure. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e7e5a5e | I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet to come surprises. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b97b64e | Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e55d956 | am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving. I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand--through rational thought--that which cannot be understood at all. There is no exact principle to be found here. The divine, as Boehme said, is unground--unfathomable, something outside the world as we experience it. But this is a difference of our minds, dearest one. I wish to arrive at revelation .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a795ad6 | Last spring, David had offered this crazy solution to our woes, only half in jest:... "What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together- in misery, but happy to not be apart." Let it be a testimony to how desperately I love this guy that I have spent the last ten months giving that offer serious.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 48e492f | Go be whomever you want to be, then. Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7e92515 | I would like never to travel again. I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent---and working at a pace so slow---that I would be able to hear myself living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4c94c2f | When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. If you are appalled, he said, then it was a devil who had visited you. If you feel lightened, it was an angel. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f9d6cec | There is a hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves. | love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 81995e9 | The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership. | love marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e09115b | The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word zweifel, which means 'doubt' - suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our lives. Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its .. | memoir | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| d61d603 | Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . . | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| af6e104 | I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e191a6a | I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. | love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4175616 | We Americans often say that marriage is hard work. I'm not sure that the Hmong would understand this notion. Life is hard work, of course, and work is very hard work -- I'm quite certain they would agree with those statements - but how does marriage become hard work? Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work. A rec.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9d8cbcf | There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| eef9d58 | Perhaps creativity's greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative adventure, you have a souvenir--something that you made, something to remind you forever of your brief but transformative encounter with inspiration | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 162a08c | you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead. | strength | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| da95215 | Love is like that is a deep well with steep sides. Once you fall in, that's it. You will love that person always. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4f9c3d5 | I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein they have quietly buried- in neat little rows- the personal dreams they have given up for their families | women-warriors | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
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| 5dc3026 | No, when I refer to "creative living," I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e985d99 | bHthy `n Dltk kmn ybHth `n lm lkhmd lnr lmsht`lh fy r'sh | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3cfb384 | At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart. | perfectionism | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c9f8131 | No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it. | brandi-l-bates-quotes brendon-burchard ceo chess elizabeth-gilbert entrepreneur entrepreneurship entrepreneurship-quotes inspiration investments money motivation ownership personal-development self-help-inspirational success wealth | Brandi L. Bates | |
| f662261 | The secret to falling in love so fast, of course, is not to know the person at all. You just need to identify one exciting feature about them, and then you hurl your heart at that one feature, with full force, trusting that this will be enough of a foundation for lasting devotion. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 767a44b | I took on my depression like it was the fight of my life, wich of course, it was. I became a student of my own depressed experience, trying to unthread its causes. What was the root of all this dispair? Was it psychological? (Mom and Dad's fault?) Was it just temporal, a "bad time" in my life? (When the divorce ends, will the depression end with it?) Was it genetic? (Melancholy, called by many names, has run through my family for generation.. | Elizabeth Gilbert |