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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 344189f | What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to live. That's a triumph. | depression-recovery mental-health young-adult | Ned Vizzini | |
| 08724a4 | And naturally I was reading in the library a few days later from a book about the Indian saint Sri Ramakrishna, and I stumbled upon a story about a seeker who once came to see the great master and admitted to him that she feared she was not a good enough devotee, feared that she did not love God enough. And the saint said, "Is there nothing you love?" The woman admitted that she adored her young nephew more than anything else on earth. The .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fd7cace | To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business--not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot. | beauty inspirational | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| cbb8de3 | i honor the divinity that resides within me. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c2949e5 | We can change our wives," he said. "We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b6d5547 | So Sofie and I have come to Pizzeria da Michele, and these pies we have just ordered -- one for each of us -- are making us lose our minds. I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delerium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair. Meanwhile, Sofie is practically in tears over hers, she's having a metaphysical crisis about it, she's begging me, ".. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b5f607f | You learn to smile even in you liver?' 'Even in my lire, Ketut. Big smile in my liver. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 51ff8d9 | When a situation is making you truly miserable, it's difficult to say that you are "merely" unhappy. There seems to be nothing "mere" for instance, about crying for months on end, or feeling that you are being buried alive within your own home." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 35a548d | If faith were rational, it wouldn't be - by definition - faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be...a prudent insurance policy. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9e5b931 | I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8e296e6 | When you are walking down the road in Bali and your pass a stranger, the very first question he or she will ask you is, "Where are you going?" The second question is, "Where are you coming from?" To a Westerner, this can seem like a rather invasive inquiry from a perfect stranger, but they're just trying to get an orientation on you, trying to insert you into the grid for the purposes of security and comfort. If you tell them that you don't.. | purpose travel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| cd1c1ec | What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it's too late? | selfishness travel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| f2cf426 | I lose count of how many bottles of Sardinian wine we drink before Deborah introduces to the table the suggestion that we follow a nice American custom here tonight by joining hands-and each in turn-saying what we are most grateful for. In three languages, then, this montage of gratitude comes forth, one testimony at a time. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1144474 | And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it. I choose to block out all the external (and internal) noise and distractions, and to come home again and again to creativity. 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 m.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e8ea2f6 | Who the hell do you think you are?" your darkest interior voices will demand. "It's funny you should ask," you can reply. "I'll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have invisible spirit benefactors who believe in me, and who labor" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| db51726 | This is why we have to be careful of how we handle our fear--because I've noticed that when people try to kill off their fear, they often end up inadvertently murdering their creativity in the process. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a1ed248 | Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? | elizabeth-gilbert life-philosophy | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 1faf9ec | The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong tom or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough- but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| abe1740 | For the first time in my life, it occurred to me that perhaps I was asking too much of love. Or, at least, perhaps I was asking too much of marriage. Perhaps I was loading a far heavier cargo of expectation onto the creaky old boat of matrimony than that strange vessel had ever been built to accommodate in the first place. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3a2d1cc | Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9305538 | This is likely because you're so consumed by your own dramas, anxieties, distractions, insecurities, and duties that you aren't receptive to inspiration. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6634bb7 | But why must everything always have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ea5e0b9 | Keep cultivating gratitude. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8442d64 | If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief in all that would not be a leap of faith and it would not a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy. I'm not interested in the insurance industry. I am tired of being a skeptic, I'm irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't want.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a45dd51 | If you tell me slowly, I can understand quickly | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| da3dec8 | I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime. | elizabeth-gilbert | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e43202a | Most of all, there is this truth: No matter how great your teachers may be, and no matter how esteemed your academy's reputation, eventually you will have to do the work by yourself. Eventually, the teachers won't be there anymore. The walls of the school will fall away, and you'll be on your own. The hours that you will then put into practice, study, auditions, and creation will be entirely up to you. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 315ea40 | But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pictures of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone? | religion | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| f835035 | And what if people absolutely hate what you've created? What if people attack you with savage vitriol, and insult your intelligence, and malign your motives, and drag your good name through the mud? Just smile sweetly and suggest--as politely as you possibly can--that they go make their own fucking art. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cedd3de | debt will always be the abattoir of creative dreams. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4bb8dc8 | As for things that could not be changed, they must stoically be endured. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0248dc2 | Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words; it also doesn't have to be important. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d193a54 | I fell in love with him, and it made no sense for me to fall in love with him. We could not possibly have been more different. But maybe that's where love grows best--in the deep space that exists between polarities. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8564c2e | I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5cfa670 | I have watched so many other people murder their creativity by demanding that their art pay the bills. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 06772db | If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time - everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy C.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0d1cc10 | ltnsy 'nki fy ywmin mn l'ym t`rft `l~ nfsk kSdyq@ | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 483990f | llt'ml, lys `lyk sw~ lbtsm. btsmy bwjhk, btsmy b`qlk, wlTq@ ljyd@ st'ty lyk wtzyl lTq@ lqdhr@. btsmy Ht~ bkbdk. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 61bc048 | 'wh kryshn l`ql qlq ,hy'j , qwy w`nyd , wkhD`h l yql S`wb@ `n khD` lryH | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0bc870e | In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy. We humans come into this world--as Aristophanes so beautifully explained--feeling as though we have been sawed in half, desperate to find somebody who will recognize us and repair us. (Or re-pair us.) Desire is the severed umbilicus that is always with us, always bleeding and wanting a.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0f3a489 | lqSyd@ lthny@ wlkn lw trkwny 'rtdy thwban mnswjan mn l`shb lndy lhdh lmkn lf`lt lw trkwny '`nq klW shjr@ 'wklybtws fy Gb@i Gnysh 'qsm lf`lt lqd rshHtu lnd~ hdhh l'ym tkhlStu mn lHthl@ Hfft dhqny `l~ lH lshjr m`tqd@an 'nh sq m`lmy l ymknny ldhhbu b`ydan km ynbGy lw trkwny aklu trbi hdh lmkn `l~ Tbqin mn '`shsh l`Sfyr l'nhytu nSf lTbq wnmtu `l~ lbqy llyl bTwlh | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0593f48 | Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one. To even call somebody "a creative person" is almost laughably redundant; creativity is the hallmark of our species. We have the sense for it; we have the curiosity for it; we have the opposable thumbs for it; we have the rhythm for it; we have the language and the excitement and the innate connection to divinity for it. If you're alive, you're a creative person. .. | creativity-and-motivational human-nature humanity-and-society | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4aa3c95 | Si indrazneala cu care Nietzsche rostea lucrurile! Incredibil! Sa spui ca speranta e cel mai mare rau! Ca Dumnezeu a murit! Ca adevarul este o greseala fara de care nu putem trai! Ca dusmanii adevarului nu sunt minciunile, ci convingerile! Ca rasplata ultima a celui mort este ca nu va mai muri! Ca medicii nu au nici un drept sa deposedeze un om de moartea sa! Ganduri malefice! Il contrazisese pe Nietzsche la fiecare dintre ele. Si totusi, e.. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 20aeceb | eternal recurrence means that every time you choose an action you must be willing to choose it for all eternity. | Irvin D. Yalom |