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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 120f1f9 | Luca's grandfather (who I hope is known as Nonno Spaghetti) gave him his first sky-blue Lazio jersey when the boy was just a toddler. Luca, likewise, will be a Lazio fan until he dies. "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." By the way, the word for "fan" in Italian is tifoso. Derived from the word for typhus. In other words--one who is mightil.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5d3c4b9 | remember what W. C. Fields had to say on this point: "It ain't what they call you; it's what you answer to." -- | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7afa5c6 | She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties. She was making something | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2c1ea46 | Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it's a gift. It's the frosting. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fbc1f28 | What a stark and stunning thing was life--that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 90ad69c | The city had been founded on the sound principles of religious tolerance, a free press, and good landscaping, by William Penn--a man who grew tree saplings in bathtubs, and who had imagined his metropolis as a great nursery of both plants and ideas. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 233e18e | Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave. Without bravery, he instructed, they would never be able to realize the vaulting scope of their own capacities. Without bravery, they would never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, their lives would remain small--far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e363b90 | When it comes to romance, I'm always behind you. I am slower. It's like you are the lightening and I am the thunder. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5e47295 | For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. In fact, my fear was probably the only 100 percent mundane thing about me. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams and perspectives and aspirations within me that were original. But my fear was not original in t.. | instinct tadpole | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c448add | Also, he detested people who bought fast horses that they were unskilled to ride. Furthermore, he detested: recreational sailing vessels; surveyors; cheaply made shoes; French (the language, the food, the populace); nervous clerks; tiny porcelain plates which broke in a man's damned hand; poetry (but not songs!); the stooped backs of cowards; thieving sons of whores; a lying tongue; the sound of a violin; the army (any army); tulips ("onion.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 22c3a97 | While it's lovely to be childlike in your pursuit of creativity, in other words, it's dangerous to be childish.) | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1da9d60 | the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fc9220d | Even if my acquaintance at the publishing party was certain that she herself would never abandon her husband, the question was not entirely up to her. She was not the only person in that bed. All lovers, even the most faithful lovers, are vulnerable to abandonment against their will. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1108082 | Curiosity is what keeps you working steadily, while hotter emotions may come and go. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 846cd78 | You can resist the seductions of grandiosity, blame, and shame. You can support other people in their creative efforts, acknowledging the truth that there's plenty of room for everyone. You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures. You can battle your demons (through therapy, recovery, prayer, or humility) instead of battling your gifts--in part by realizing that your demons were never the on.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 608988c | it's a mighty act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6a31435 | count your eggs while they're still up inside the chicken's ass, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1bcd199 | Do whatever brings you to life, then. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b14e17a | This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it's something you must do daily, forever. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| aad709b | Because either way, it's all kind of amazing--what we get to do, what we get to attempt, what we sometimes get to commune with. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 644aa27 | What does any of that have to do with the quiet glory of merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d809cd7 | all the good ideas feel daunting at first, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 91e9dfa | It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ea70a2e | All human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who have lived together over long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7b1a983 | You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others--why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion . . . but that is not my business. We are all different, I suppose. All I ever wanted was to know this world. I can say now, as I reach .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9519ea6 | Of all the self-published UFO books I had read, hers was unique. Its profusion of self-reported, subtle realm experiences was clearly outside the traditional realm of UFOlogy, as was its inclusion of East Indian and Tibetan spiritual practices. Had someone really experienced the connection between Eastern spirituality and Western UFOlogy--that we had long suspected? Thomas and I were prepared for just about anything. But could Joy Gilbert's.. | Janet Elizabeth Colli | ||
| fc43cb9 | repeatedly give up their own health or their own time or their own best interests on behalf of what they perceive as the greater good--perhaps in order to consistently reinforce an imperative sense of specialness, of chosenness, of connection. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 11ce564 | Music is nothing more than decoration for the imagination. That | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 13cd9b1 | The Balinese don't wait and see "how things go." That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart." | organization | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 06ec06a | Lastly, she knew one other thing, and this was the most important realization of all: 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 | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6577d4a | Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done. | live work writing | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 346d7de | Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason--for insurance against later regret. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| eb8e41b | I used to think the 109th bead was an emergency spare. Like the extra button on a fancy sweater, or the youngest son in a royal family. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4073827 | Dante writes that God is not merely a blinding vision of glorious light, but that He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle... "The love that moves the sun and the other stars." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a9c11a8 | After all, he says, "beauty attracts beauty." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 83114cd | Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen? | independence yourself | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 06caa97 | I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and then I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a vict.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b95147f | Through the mere act of creating something--anything--you might inadvertently produce work that is magnificent, eternal, or important | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 052c117 | Without bravery, their lives would remain small - far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 32b69f3 | My desire to work--my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible--is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be. But that's only because of what I have chosen to trust, which is quite simply: love. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 316a08c | One by one, the thoughts and memories of sadness raised their hands, stood up to identify themselves. I looked at each thought, at each unit of sorrow, and I acknowledged its existence and felt (without trying to protect myself from it) its horrible pain. And then I would tell that sorrow, "It's OK. I love you. I accept you. Come into my heart now. It's over."..." | life pain sadness | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 3bbc749 | We are fiddle, fork, and spoon, We are dancing with the moon, If you'd like to steal a kiss from us, You'd better steal one soon! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 38b7bed | Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4fd7740 | you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. | Elizabeth Gilbert |