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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1e4d273 | Greek and the Hebrew--and whichever side you embrace more strongly determines to a large extent how you see life. From the Greeks--specifically from the glory days of ancient Athens--we have inherited our ideas about secular humanism and the sanctity of the individual. The Greeks gave us all our notions about democracy and equality and personal liberty and scientific reason and intellectual freedom and open-mindedness and what we might call.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cc041c9 | I love him and therefore I want to protect him -- even from me, if that makes sense. I didn't want to skip any steps of preparation, or leave anything unresolved that might reemerge later to harm us -- to harm him. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9a867ae | Not making a living,' he wrote, on his first trip to Alaska, 'just living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 935e34c | Culturally, though not theologically, I'm a Christian. I was born a Protestant of the white Anglo-Saxon persuasion. And while I do love that great teacher of peace who was called Jesus, and while I do reserve the right to ask myself in certain trying situations what indeed He would do, I can't swallow that one fixed rule of Christianity insisting that Christ is the only path to God. Strictly speaking, then, I cannot call myself a Christian... | religion | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 961ff8b | I especially love watching Marcus Aurelius fighting his perfectionism in order to get back to work on his writing, regardless of the results. "Get a move on," he writes to himself, "and don't worry whether anyone will give you credit for it. And don't go expecting Plato's 'Republic;' be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant." Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds it endearing and e.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3ed01af | The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out. | memoir | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 2d18721 | He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| af97bf7 | Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f8b2513 | Wonder isn't about finding answers; it's about becoming more comfortable with questions. | adventure-travel awe elizabeth-gilbert parenting | Leigh Ann Henion | |
| c0a02cf | But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just shit. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 282770c | We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something | love risk romance | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ba1fb81 | art is absolutely meaningless. It is, however, also deeply meaningful. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 971bb08 | when you set out in the world to help yourself,sometimes you end up helping Tutti. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| adcf39e | We are not alien visitors to this planet, after all but natural residents and relatives of every living entity here. This earth is where we came from and where we'll all end up when we die, and during the interim, it is our home, And there's no way we can ever hope to understand ourselves if we don't at least marginally understand our home. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6b006e6 | I firmly believe that we all need to find something to do in our lives that stops us from eating the couch. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f62764f | The world is full of books, movies and stories about how the loss of a loved one, or a change in fortune, or a severe illness or another tragedy of such magnitude catapulted someone to reset their lives and chase long-forgotten dreams. I'm thinking of Cheryl Strayed, who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail solo after the unexpected and heartbreaking death of her mother, and Elizabeth Gilbert, who embarked on a year-long journey around the world a.. | Shivya Nath | ||
| 8f8a391 | Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process. | writing | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 51e7e75 | mn lGryb wlSHyH 'yDan 'n lnf`lt lHd@ tj`ln nstjyb l~ l'khbr lmzlzl@ b`ks mymlyh lmnTq. hy lqym@ lmTlq@ ll`wTf lbshry@ ftsjl l'Hdth ls`yd@ 'Hynan `l~ mqys rykhtr `l~ 'nh Sdm@ khlS@, fym tdf`n lHzn lmrw`@ 'Hynan l~ lnfjr blDHk. | inspirational | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c6464c5 | jmyl@ l~ Hd 'nh ymkn t`lyqh `l~ Snr@ w st`mlh kT`m lSTyd rjl mn jmy` ljnsyt w l'`mr | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8d55166 | kthyr@ hy l'mwr lty bqyt mstyqZ@ l'jlh Twl llyl khll Hyty:lHb , ljdl,lqyd@ , lrqS , lbk , lqlq (w'Hynan kl hdhh l'shy fy lyl@in wHd@ ) wlknny lm 'DHi 'bdan blnwm l'jli lsjwd wHsb , flima l 'f`l lan ?? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9bae625 | ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is a sort of magical safety harness that guides us from one stage of our lives into the next, making sure we don't stumble or lose ourselves along the way. Ceremony and ritual march us carefully right through the center of our deepest fears about change... | memoir | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4f3a93f | When we are young, Angela, 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. In my experience, this is the hardest lesson of them all. | time-will-heal wounds | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 71fc3a2 | qd 'SbHt 'fkry 'shbh bjyrn qdm~,mz`jyn w lknhm 'SbHw `zyzyn , fthm@ mts` ln jmy` an fy hdh ljwr | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 55b1c7d | I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth. Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason - for insurance against later regret. I think people have children for all manner of reasons- sometimes out of pure desire to nurture and witness life, sometimes out of an absence of choice.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 07e0ff0 | 'nti mr'@ qwy@ m`td@ `l~ lHSwl `l~ m trydynh mn lHy@ wlm tHSly `l~ m 'rdti fy `lqtk l'khyr@, whdh m ythyr jnwnk. lm ytSrf zwjk km 'rdti, wkdhlk l'mr blnsb@ l~ dyfyd. `kstk lHy@ lftr@ mn lzmn, wm mn shy' ythyr GDb mHbWy lsyTr@ 'kthr mn 'n t`kshm l'qdr | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 263b495 | In general, e mai bine sa nu ataci un mecanism de aparare, decat daca acesta creeaza mai multe probleme decat solutii si daca ai ceva mai bun de pus in loc. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| db6cebb | if it weren't for errant passion, death, despair, and loss, the great bulk of art would never have been born. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| c2f2aa7 | Nu experientele in sine, ci felul in care le interpretam determina calitatea vietii noastre. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| b016408 | Surely this sense of betrayal is what Robert Frost had in mind when he wrote: "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee/And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me." io" | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 57c2b24 | When, at the end of their lives, most men look back they will find that they have lived throughout ad interim. They will be surprised to see that the very thing they allowed to slip by unappreciated and unenjoyed was just their life. And so a man, having been duped by hope, dances into the arms of death. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| d11dca5 | The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else, | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| f0a0b4f | We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning. One of our major tasks is to invent a meaning sturdy enough to support a life and to perform the tricky maneuver of denying our personal authorship of this meaning. Thus we conclude instead that it was "out there" waiting for us. Our ongoing search for substantial meaning systems often throws us into crises .. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 2eaf157 | Four major existential concerns--death, meaning in life, isolation, and freedom--play a crucial role in the inner life of every human being and | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| d4a9a16 | Mormintele ma linisteau cumva, imi permiteau sa banalizez banalul din viata mea. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 070bec7 | Trebuie sa ai in tine haos si frenezie pentru a da nastere unei stele care danseaza. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 4a1a2a4 | For one can never really be helped by another; one must find the strength to help oneself. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 09ddd43 | Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti. | home | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| b70f9a1 | Mais le pire, quand on habite une prison sans barreaux, c'est qu'on n'a pas meme conscience des ecrans qui bouchent l'horizon; j'errais a travers un epais brouillard, et je le croyais transparent. Les choses qui m'echappaient, je n'en entrevoyais meme pas la presence. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| d22d319 | Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 2bd41fd | one can never know oneself but only narrate oneself | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| bf825b1 | jnYkhy y'zd | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| fd77ea2 | Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our equals, stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails. This advice is absurd. Precisely because the idea of femininity is artificially defined by customs and fashion, it is imposed on every woman from the outside[...]. The individual is not free to shape the idea of femininity at will. | feminism gender gender-roles misogyny sexism | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 347c822 | Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms... | life love respect truth wisdom | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 6931e8d | A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as instrument of her transcendence, but "an object destined for another." -- | Simone de Beauvoir |