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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a4a6e28 | The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can. | life what-happens-to-you | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 32c3500 | wD `n mHwl@ rd ljmyl lmn d`mn fy Hytn , qd ykwn mn lHkm@ lstslm 'mm `Zm@ krm lnsny@ w lktf btwjyh lshkr lSdq l~ lbd | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e86dbc3 | There's plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home, but understand this: Creativity and I are the only ones who will be making any decisions along the way. I recognize and respect that you are part of this family, and so I will never exclude you from our activities, but still--your suggestions will never be followed. You're allowed to have a seat, and you're allowed to have a voice, but you are not allowed to hav.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9bc039d | 'nt lst sw~ m tfkr fyh , w 'Hsysk hy `bd l'fkrk , w 'nt `bd l`wTfk | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a075325 | It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cb12543 | ynbG~ `lyk 'l t`T~ nfsk lfrS@ llnhyr lnk Hyn tf`lyn dhlk ytHwl l'mr l~ `d@ ldyk ttkrr mrr `lyk n t`wWd nfsk `l~ 'n tbqy qwy `wD `n dhlk | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| de17c07 | Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7d7ad64 | lyki n tt`lmy kyf tkhtryn fkrk tmm km tkhtryn mlbsk kl ywm . nh qw~ ymknk tTwyrh n knt trGbyn kthyr blsyTrh `l~ mwr Hytk , bd'y b`qlk . nh lshy lwHyd ldhy ynbGy lsyTrh `lyh . tkhl~ `n kl mtbq~, fy m `dh . lnk n `jzt `n n tkwny syd@ fkrk, fnt fy wrTh kbyrh ln tkhrjy mnh bd | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 00cf2d3 | 't`rfyna kyfa ybdw lns mthl klbhm , '`tqd b'nk tbdyn mthla rjlk !! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6847306 | Those girls are on the road to trouble," I heard an older woman say about us one night, as we were staggering down the street drunk--and that woman was absolutely right. What she didn't understand, though, is that trouble is what we wanted. Oh, our youthful needs! Oh, the deliciously blinding yearnings of the young--which inevitably take us right to the edges of cliffs, or trap us in cul-de-sacs of our design." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 88ebe07 | qltu lhu :"rbm 'mknk lmjy lzyrty fy 'mryk ywman m , kytwt " hz r'shu nfyan wmstslman bmrH lqdrh :" l ymknny lyz , l 'mlk m ykfy mn l'snn llsfr blTy'r@ " | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3ef52b4 | Aperson only gets to move to New York City for the first time in her life once, Angela, and it's a pretty big deal. Perhaps this idea doesn't hold any romance for you, since you are a born New Yorker. Maybe you take this splendid city of ours for granted. Or maybe you love it more than I do, in your own unimaginably intimate way. Without a doubt, you were lucky to be raised here. But you never got to move here--and for that, I am sorry for .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 01ae252 | I always hated hearing old people yammering on like this when I was young. And I do what to assure you: I'm aware that many thing were not better in the 1940s. Underarm deodorants and air-conditioning were woefully inadequate, for instance, so everybody stank like crazy, especially in the summer, and also we had Hitler. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8c2466a | Of course nobody is required to stand in the field of honor...If you find it too challenging, you may always exit, and then you can remain a child. But if you wish to be a person of character, I'm afraid this is the only way. But it may be painful. | being-an-adult field-of-honor honor | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 856d2c6 | mn wsT Hyty . tfjr ynbw` `Zym | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a029caf | 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 alongside me. The fact that I am here at all is evidence that I have the right to be here. I have a right to my own voice and a right to my own vision. I have a right to collaborate with creativity, because I myself am a product and a consequence of Creation. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 138ebdb | marriage a debt that is contracted in youth and paid in old age.... | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 679e690 | We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 992869a | If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 5021d25 | She may have played her role, but you, what role did you play? Were you, and I, so different from her? Did you see her? Or did you, instead, see only prey--a disciple, a plowland for your thoughts, a successor? Or perhaps, like me, you saw beauty, youth a satin pillow, a vessel into which to drain your lust. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| f39be53 | msy'wlytpdhyry mwjb myshwd frd `tqdsh bh wjwd njtdhndhy Gyy r khnr bgdhrd w yn khr bry khsy khh jhnbynysh r Hwl chnyn `tqdy stwr khrdh, bsyr dshwr st. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 782e5cc | The more the therapist is able to tolerate the anxiety of not knowing, the less need there is for the therapist to embrace orthodoxy. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 4ce9064 | My work is to love my body, all of it. Whole and entire. The whole aging mortal troublesome failing miraculous intricate breathing doomed cancerous warm mortifying unreliable hard-working imperfect beautiful appalling living struggling tender frightened frightening living dying living breathing temporary wondrous mystifying afflicted mortally-ill assemblage of the atoms of the universe that is my self, is me, for this space of time. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 8e0f010 | Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by something prior, and the more we devote ourselves to the understanding of this causative network, the more free we become." ... "I'm sure he would have said that you are subject to passions that are driven by inadequate ideas rather than by the i.. | freedom reason reality passions | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 94d0e0a | Tanriyi oldururseniz, onun tapinagina siginmaktan da vazgecmek, orayi terk etmek zorundasiniz! | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 36b30dc | I'm not ready for a committed relationship with anyone and that I have a ton of work to do on myself. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 780d900 | Creating yourself is a source of great pride, but it also leads to a feeling of having no foundations. I've known many gifted children of immigrants who have a sense of being lilies growing in a swamp--beautiful flowers but no deep roots. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| b6fc87e | Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a "falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person." | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 123ad00 | He was persuaded of the reality and significance of human choice; he believed that experiential learning was a far more powerful approach to personal understanding and change than an endeavor resting upon intellectual understanding; he believed that individuals have within themselves an actualizing tendency, an inbuilt proclivity toward growth and fulfillment. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| d79c7bd | there was a basic division of the ways of men: those who wish for peace of soul and happiness must believe and embrace faith, while those who wish to pursue the truth must forsake peace of mind and devote their life to inquiry. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 8cf5dd6 | bzrg shdn, ntkhb khrdn w jd khrdn khwd z dygrn bh m`ny mwjhh b tnhyy w mrg hm hst. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| cfd8c92 | All I can do in one session is to be real, to leap into the patient's life, to offer observations in the hope that he'll be able to open doors and explore some new parts of himself in his ongoing therapy. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| d6fe551 | The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they cannot abide the fleeting shallow encounters and small talk of many social gatherings. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 4d276e4 | Wish" gives the warmth, the content, the imagination, the child's play, the freshness, and the richness to "will." "Will" gives the self-direction, the maturity, to "wish." Without "wish," "will" loses its life-blood, its viability, and tends to expire in self-contradiction. If you have only "will" and no "wish," you have the dried-up, Victorian, neopuritan man. If you have only "wish" and no "will," you have the driven, unfree, infantile p.. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 826b799 | Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are just painters . . . Let us not overestimate the power of any form of literature. | David James Duncan | ||
| a142012 | Religious laws, in all the major religious traditions, have both a letter and a spirit. As I understand the words and example of Jesus, the spirit of the law is all-important whereas the letter, while useful... becomes lifeless and deadly without it. In accord with this distinction a yearning to worship on wilderness ridges or beside rivers rather than in churches could legitimately be called evangelical... if your words or deeds harmonize .. | nature spirituality religion | David James Duncan | |
| cc70df3 | the only unfailing guide I've ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love's flame is so fragile... keeping one's love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.. | prayer spirituality religion | David James Duncan | |
| 2db90cc | I loved the solar smile he would turn on his friends at times--and on me--nonplussing us when he simply left it on us, full-beam, for such a long, long moment that we'd finally have no choice but to realize this was no social smile, no rote kind of friendliness: this was what it felt like to be completely seen and loved for a moment. | David James Duncan | ||
| 825a57e | Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all the racist, sexist, tasteless and denigrating remarks made by coaches inaudible to the students about whom they bellowed them. | David James Duncan | ||
| 3939232 | That telephones can connect us in seconds to any creature on earth foolhardy enough to lift its own chunk of plastic is wonderful. But it's also terrible, given what a lot of people think and feel about each other. That's why, until they're equipped with some sort of flush or filter or waste-disposal system for the billions of words that ought not to be spoken, I'll not trust the things. | David James Duncan | ||
| aaaac38 | Across the road from my cabin was a huge clear-cut--hundreds of acres of massive spruce stumps interspersed with tiny Douglas firs--products of what they call "Reforestation," which I guess makes the spindly firs en masse a "Reforest," which makes an individual spindly fir a "Refir," which means you could say that Weyerhauser, who owns the joint, has Refir Madness, since they think that sawing down 200-foot-tall spruces and replacing them w.. | humor | David James Duncan | |
| c24715f | May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?" "Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to look when Jennie opened her bag. "You have everything." "I have even more," Jennie said modestly. "Two windows that I left at home." | Maurice Sendak | ||
| bfa930e | Oh, please don't go -- I'll eat you up -- I love you so! | Maurice Sendak | ||
| 100bc04 | When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear. | Alan Dean Foster |