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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1404d6f | Don't we have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for awhile. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cdcae0b | La gente cree que una alma gemela es la persona con la que encajas perfectamente, que es lo que quiere todo el mundo. Pero una alma gemela autentica es un espejo, es la persona que saca todo lo que tienes reprimido, que te hace volver la mirada hacia dentro para que puedas cambiar tu vida. Un alma gemela es seguramente, la persona mas importante que vas a conocer en tu vida, porque te tira abajo todos los muros y te despierta de un porrazo... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2b520d0 | So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. | human-experience inspirational loneliness | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 0ebfa7e | So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all? | irony life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 101325f | I'm not interested in the insurance industry. 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d51318d | means of knowing. I am certain of this, for I have witnessed it myself. When I swung myself into the fire as a young man, I saw that the storehouses of the human mind are rarely ever fully opened. When we open them, nothing remains unrevealed. When we cease all argument and debate--both internal and external--our true questions can be heard and answered. That is the powerful mover. That is the book of nature, written neither in Greek nor in.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 58e6ae0 | Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily precluded her from marriage. Some men liked a larger woman, who promised a stronger disposition, and Alma, it could be argued, had a handsome profile--at least from her left side. She certainly had a fine, friendly nature. Yet she was missing some invisible, essential ingredient, and so, despite all the frank eroticism that lay hidden within her.. | handsome homeliness unlovely | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| bb4957a | This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. | joy life rituals spirituality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a1615f1 | We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands. | god life mortality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| fd52412 | What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1e02595 | would happen next, as much as ever. The thing was to resist submersion for as long as possible. She clutched the great tree as if it were a horse. She pressed her cheek against its silent, living flank. She said, "You and I are very far from home, aren't we?" In the dark gardens, in the middle of the quiet city night, the tree did not" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 72cb64b | Pero si pudiera hacerme unos pantalones con la hierba de este jardin lo haria | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ccf303b | Some people like to argue about God." "Not necessary," he said. "I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion." -- | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c722dd8 | If you clear out all that space in your mind that you're using right now to obsess about this guy, you'll have a vacuum there, an open spot--a doorway. And guess what the universe will do with that doorway? It will rush in--God will rush in--and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5263f6b | 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? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4027ad3 | Tan malo como el tabaco para los pulmones es el rencor para el alma; | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b61c9d6 | Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most poeple who live there. If you could read people's thoughts as they were passing you on the streets of any given place, you would discover that most of them are thinking the same thought. Whatever that majority thought might be - that is the word of the city. And if your personal word does not match the word of the city, then you don't really belong there. | word | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 82647ec | My lowest self says: "That person is acting like a total jerk!" My slightly higher self says: "That person is acting like a total jerk right now only because he's going through a really hard time in life, and his parents never taught him how to behave better, and he might have some sort of mild mental illness, and also he has a drinking problem...so I should try to be more compassionate and generous toward sad, tragic, miserable people like.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8802720 | His penmanship was shamefully crabbed. Each sentence was a crowded village of capital letters and small letters, living side by side in tight misery, crawling up on one another as though trying to escape the page. His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9a33f48 | O trabalho quer ser feito, e quer ser feito atraves de voce. | work-hard | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 26cf48a | The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught but a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 69c7e0f | always prepared for anything foolish, fun, or | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a7b245e | En un mundo dominado por el desorden y el desastre y el fraude tal vez solo se pueda confiar en la belleza. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2248de6 | 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? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now? An.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7c03e93 | Each other, perhaps. Not each other's words, but each other's thoughts. Each other's spirit. If you ask me what I believe, I shall tell you this: the whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions--electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us. There is a hidden | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a681c62 | insisted, "until the point is inarguable." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5feb034 | 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 pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dcf16b6 | The classical Indian sages wrote that there are three factors which indicate whether a soul has been blessed with the highest and most auspicious luck in the universe: To have been born a human being, capable of conscious inquiry. To have been born with--or to have developed--a yearning to understand the nature of the universe. To have found a living spiritual master. There | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fdc6489 | No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God's eyes." Beatrix continued, "nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you that are unpleasant or uncharitable, let them fall stillborn to the ground." | friendships | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 7eee584 | Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine, rule of law, social order, community and familial responsibility, sickness, loss, death, taxes, etc.). Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it's a gift. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f442086 | My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitated by this idea of the chakras, that he wanted to actually see them in a dissected human body in order to believe they existed. But after a particularly transcendent meditative experience, he came away with a new understanding of it. He said, "Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human bei.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7d7786b | 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. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once yo.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b675547 | The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I['m a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to top choki.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 275fc8e | Opening up space for ourselves is a life-affirming act, a sacred act. I believe we must all be allowed to affirm and open our own lives, in celebration of the miracle of our existence. I do not believe we were put here on Earth to feel sick and weary and sad forever. I do not believe we were put here to grow old when we are still young. This | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 412fd75 | Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. And if greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work. Hard at work, and sane. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2ac88e5 | Trust me, if you want to complain, you'll always find plenty to complain about, even when fortune appears to be shining her favor upon you. But | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d5b6e04 | There will be two ships sailing, but you'll be on the Resolution, with Cook himself. Never put yourself in his way. Never speak to him. And if you do speak to him, which you must never do, certainly do to speak to him in the manner in which you have sometimes spoken to me. He will not find it as diverting as I do. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bffbd02 | And when I pray, I shall ask the Lord in heaven whatever happened to my father's ethics - or did he never have any?" Henry leapt to his feet and pounded both fists on his desk in rage. "You little idiot!" he roared. "I never had any!" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1e7fb6d | Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place. The only unforgivable | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9ff9c9b | I tell you, Becker," Henry said, "if you make me eat mutton one more night this week, I will have someone shot." "He doesn't really have people shot," Alma reassured Mr. Pike, under her breath. "I had figured that," her guest whispered back, "or else I would be dead already." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a547233 | it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 80eb8c1 | People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake... they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yoursel.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d2108dd | Dal centro della mia vita venne una grande fontana . . . | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b746293 | 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 what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me. It can barf all over me if it wants to--I just don't care. | Elizabeth Gilbert |