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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 68b7816 | Jimmy may have only a few sentences in his repertoire, but he knows to keep going when pretty girls pay attention to him. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| eda5025 | There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. | mental-health young-adult | Ned Vizzini | |
| 5b3390d | I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough - just smart enough to have problems. | mental-health young-adult youth | Ned Vizzini | |
| 31c667e | Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Jog. Run. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real. Live. Live. Live. Live. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 8932da7 | See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. They happen because of it. They depend on it. | inspirational pensieve | Ned Vizzini | |
| c52b779 | If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression--maybe that's what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 4007166 | They're sort of ancillary, friends. I mean, they're important - everybody knows that; the TV tells you so - but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 813b4fa | See, when you mess something up -- you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up. | depression-recovery mental-health | Ned Vizzini | |
| 05fc24a | You're just pissed off. And when you're pissed off, you lash out. | annoyed dennis-lehane irate moonlight-mile pissed-off | Dennis Lehane | |
| 93de5e8 | And this commitment of ours--consciously devoid of official commitment--felt miraculous in its liberation. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 97f698e | The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels--that's creative living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 27c5a62 | So sadness is a place? Sometimes people live there for years | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 713e82d | she knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact. This fact was not merely true about the lives of human beings; it was also true of every living entity on the planet, from the largest creation down to the humblest. It was even true of mosses. This fact was the very mechanism of nature--the driving force behind all existence, behind al.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 08c72e6 | If you made something and it didn't work out, let it go. Remember that you're nothing but a beginner--even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go. Forget | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3a64263 | Like a dog, I have pack needs; like a cat, he prefers a quieter house. As long as he is married to me, his house will never be quiet. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 37e9b74 | I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e5f8b32 | Which is to say, the Romans didn't believe that an exceptionally gifted person was a genius; they believed that an exceptionally gifted person had a genius. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 70d8413 | Embrace the creativity and don't care about the result. It's better to be a beginner till the end of the life than waiting forever to be perfect. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9fdd140 | A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 46bba5b | Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Something healthier." "Like what?" "Like love, Groceries. Like pure divine love." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0bee706 | Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 063b8b6 | The problem was that, while the classic European coming-of-age story generally featured a provincial boy who moved to the city and was transformed into a refined gentleman, the American tradition had evolved into the opposite. The American boy came of age by leaving civilization and striking out toward the hills. There, he shed his cosmopolitan manners and became a robust and proficient man. Not a gentleman, mind you, but a man. This | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b08b88e | traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby--I just don't care .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7b9fa30 | When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem." The" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 96a9d67 | I've spent so much time these last years wondering what I'm supposed to be. A wife? A lover? A celibate? An Italian? A glutton? A traveler? An artist? A Yogi? But I'm not any of these things, at least not completely. And I'm not Crazy Aunt Liz, either. I'm just a slippery antevasin - betwixt and between - a student on the ever-shifting border near the wonderful, scary forest of the new. | life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 8073a6e | You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 42f89e2 | the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me. Just say what you want to say, then, and say it with all your heart. Share whatever you are driven to share. If it's authentic enough, believe me--it will feel original. Motives | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dcf47b6 | A soulmate's purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master." ." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6914188 | We loved each other. That was never the question. It's just that we couldn't figure out how to stop making each other desperately, shriekingly, soul-punishingly miserable. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1587f43 | El gran amor de mi vida es viajar | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c972126 | The love between Uncle Dees and Roger was every bit as enduring as it had been immediate. They were never to be seen apart, man and dog, not since the moment of their introduction. Very quickly after their arrival in Amsterdam four years earlier, Roger had given Alma to understand that he was no longer her dog--that, in fact, he had never been her dog, nor had he ever been Ambrose's dog, but that he had been Dees' dog all along, by force of.. | destiny man-and-dog | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 697a1f3 | Dal centro della mia vita venne una grande fontana... "From the center of my life, there came a great fountain..." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 18d98fe | One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind t.. | love relationships sexuality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| d1d279a | Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there. | energy life perfection spirituality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 1c649e8 | The former Catholic nun (who oughtta know about guilt, after all) wouldn't hear of it. "Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5506d08 | the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 68a8624 | Simply put, I got pulled through the wormhole of the Absolute, and in that rush I suddenly understood the workings of the universe completely. I left my body, I left the room, I left the planet, I stepped through time and I entered the void. I was inside the void, but I also was the void and I was looking at the void, all at the same time. The void was a place of limitless peace and wisdom, The void was conscious and intelligent. The void w.. | love philosophy spirituality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 3475595 | Mandale luz y amor cuando te acuerdes de el y olvidate del tema | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| afa5dd7 | You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will. | life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| fb34205 | The sentences still form in my mind, and thoughts still do their little show-off dance, but I know my thought patterns so well now that they don't bother me anymore. My thoughts have become like old neighbors, kind of bothersome but ultimately rather endearing - Mr. and Mrs. Yakkity-Yak and their three dumb children, Blah, Blah and Blah. But they don't agitate my home. There's room for all of us in this neighborhood. | life spirituality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 69440dd | Devotion is diligence without assurance. | life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e2cefe5 | the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame. | divinity spirituality transcendence | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c950e56 | Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years - I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. My thoughts turn to something I read once, something the Zen Buddhists believe. They say that an oak tree is brought into creation by two forces at the same time. Obviously, there is the acorn from whic.. | philosophy spirituality zen-buddhism | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 47f8ab9 | Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself. | Elizabeth Gilbert |