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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 523f22f | If faith were rational, it wouldn't be--by definition--faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0418ad2 | The man is a perfect dragon for protocol. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 90bca52 | The other day a monk told me, "The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9d0a0c6 | That's just ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what your ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 387cd62 | El sufrimiento y las molestias son inevitables en esta vida, pero si encuentras la quietud necesaria con el tiempo descubriras que todo ( lo incomodo y lo hermoso) pasa con el tiempo | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 94c067d | Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| acdc894 | I believe in a magnificent God. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4ffa3c6 | benevolent throne set someplace high up on the moon. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 779780b | I wanted to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0579b2b | 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 a pure desire to nurture and witness life, sometimes out of an absence of choice, sometimes in order to hold on to a partner or create an heir, sometimes without thinking about it in any particular way. Not all the reasons to have children are the same, and not all of .. | life parenthood | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| bd31fb8 | But it was pure, this love that I was feeling. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4d95b65 | I've heard it said that prayer is the act of talking to God, while meditation is the act of listening. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d95add6 | His face is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of kindness. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8b432f9 | Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not." -Beatrix Whittaker" -- | respect | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c9dc537 | Un dia de estos vas a recordar esta epoca de tu vida como un dulce momento de tristeza. Entenderas que, estando "de duelo y teniendo roto el corazon, estas en el mejor sitio posible para cambiar tu vida. En un hermoso lugar dedicado a la devocion y en un estado de gracia. Vive este momento minuto a minuto. Deja que las cosas se arreglen solas" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 82afbea | Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose the murder weapon with which the loved one was lost in the first place. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6f7e09f | It was the Senator's opinion that a good, peppery chicken soup could cure anything, even childbirth, so he cooked up a nice batch for Stanley Thomas's wife. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 907f30c | This is what we are like. Collectively, as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?" Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief and suffering." | life love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e132cd7 | El final es el mismo, asi que mejor si el viaje es feliz. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 56f916d | George thrust into Alma's hand a lithograph of a spotted 'Catasetum.' The orchid had been rendered so magnificently that it seemed to grow off the page. Its lips were spotted red against yellow, and appeared moist, like living flesh. Its leaves were lush and thick, and its bulbous roots looked as though one could shake actual soil off them. Before Alma could thoroughly take in the beauty, George handed her another stunning print- a 'Periste.. | blossoms colors genus-species illustrations lithographs orchids textures | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| d1fd66f | I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the other. I also have a temper. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a2e81bc | double-pumpin' it" when you have to inhale two desperate gasps of oxygen with every sob." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ba0f6fc | But Aristophanes warned that this dream of completion through love is impossible. We are too broken as a species to ever entirely mend through simple union. The original cleaved halves of the severed eight-limbed humans were far too scattered for any of us to ever find our missing halves again. Sexual union can make a person feel completed and sated for a while (Aristophanes surmised that Zeus had given humans the gift of orgasm out of pity.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fa8449e | a sad Italian history of corruption by local leaders and exploitation by foreign dominators, all of which has generally led Italians to draw the seemingly accurate conclusion that nobody and nothing in this world can be trusted. Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and this makes the senses stronger in Italy than anywhere in Europ.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b7abc44 | When I was nineteen years old, I discovered a collection of books in the Harvard library written by Jacob Boehme. Do you know of him?" Naturally she knew of him. She had her own copies of these works in the White Acre library. She had read Boehme, though she never admired him. Jacob Boehme was a sixteenth-century cobbler from Germany who had mystical visions about plants. Many people considered him an early botanist. Alma's mother, on the o.. | jacob-boehme medicinal-herbs medicinal-plants mysticism symbolism | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| cd4d82c | my fourth day in Rome, my shadow has still not darkened the door way of a church or a museum.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2627fcd | Dar aici este diferenta dintre mintile noastre, draga mea. Eu vreau sa ajung la revelatie purtat de aripi, in timp ce tu inaintezi statornic pe jos, cu lupa in mana. Eu sunt un ratacitor nestatornic, il caut pe Dumnezeu in contururile mari, caut o cale noua de cunoastere. Tu stai cu picioarele pe pamant si masori dovezile palma cu palma. Calea ta e mai rationala si mai metodica, dar eu nu pot sa mi-o schimb pe a mea. | mbti sensitive | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 3e92175 | Was I tapping into a universal yearning for God? Did I have a chemical imbalance? Or did I just need to get laid? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0c0b78e | I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which cannot be understood at all. 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 on wings, while you advance steadily on foot, magnifying glass in hand. I am a smattering wanderer, seeking God within the outer contours, sea.. | reason science | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 1407b8e | I'm tired of being a skeptic, I'm irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't want to hear it anymore. I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water. | spiritual | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| ffada7f | Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love." But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it plea.. | peace travel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 08f3094 | The hardest part of your life is behind you now. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 17215de | Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. ELIZABETH GILBERT | Melanie Shankle | ||
| 43befe3 | Rest assured, dear friend, that many noteworthy and great sciences and arts have been discovered through the understanding and subtlety of women, both in cognitive speculation, demonstrated in writing, and in the arts, manifested in manual works of labor. I will give you plenty of examples. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies 1405 | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9401af2 | Then he asked me to tell him some stories about India, about America, about Italy, about my family. That's when I realized that I am not Ketut Liyer's English teacher, nor am I exactly his theological student, but I am the merest and simplest of pleasures for this old medicine man- I am his company. I'm somebody he can talk to because he enjoys hearing about the world and he hasn't had much of a chance to see it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9691199 | A sage Portuguese sailor who had told him, years before 'To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fa8e999 | just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst right into bloom. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 51689bf | Cuando te pierdes en un bosque, a veces tardas un rato en darte cuenta de que te has perdido. Te puedes tirar un buen tiempo intentando convencerte de que te has alejado un poco del camino, pero que lo vas a encontrar de aqui a nada. Entonces cae la noche sin parar, y sigues sin tener ni idea de donde estas, y ha llegado el momento de admitir que te has apartado atolondradamente del camino, tanto que ya no sabes ni siquiera por donde sale e.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 148f399 | The other day in prayer I said to God, "Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?"." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a40978f | E melhor viver o nosso proprio destino de forma imperfeita do que uma imitacao da vida de outra pessoa na perfeicao" Bhagavad Gitav" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1e41475 | The fact that this was a fairly accurate portrait of my own mother is a quick indicator of how difficult it once was for me to tell the difference between myself and the powerful woman who had raised me. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3142e79 | Bravery means doing something scary. Fearlessness means not even understanding what the word scary means. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 65a9019 | If your goal in life is to become fearless, then I believe you're already on the wrong path, because the only truly fearless people I've ever met were straight-up sociopaths and a few exceptionally reckless three-year-olds--and those aren't good role models for anyone. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3297dfa | I think a creative life is the most marvelous life there is. | Elizabeth Gilbert |