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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 95e4626 | Era un fragmento diminuto del universo, pero tambien era exactamente del tamano del universo | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 001b88a | Why" is a hard question to answer in any langauage." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 47bcd5c | Giulio and Maria have a beautiful apartment, the most impressive feature of which is, to my mind, the wall that Maria once covered with angry curses against Giulio (scrawled in black magic marker) because they were having an argument and 'he yells louder than me' and she wanted to get a word in edgewise. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 93ece6d | since when did creativity become a suffering contest? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c92d07c | During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9b40c04 | I want you to figure out a way to stop that from happening. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1a50328 | I've never stood on a piece of ground as throbbingly, even pornographically, generative. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 47a1674 | Om Namah Shivaya. I honor the divinity that resides within me. ...I repeat it again. Again. And again. It's not so much that I'm meditating as unpacking the mantra carefully, the way you would unpack your grandmother's best china if it had been stored in a box for a long time, unused. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9ba512f | Todo comienza cuando el objeto de tu adoracion te da una dosis embriagadora y alucinogena de algo que jamas te habias atrevido a admitir que necesitabas --un coctel toxico-sentimental, quiza, de un amor estrepitoso y un entusiasmo arrebatador--. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 424b1a9 | Well child, you may do whatever you like with your suffering. It belongs to you. But i shall tell you what i do with mine. I gasp it by the small hairs, i cast it to the ground and i grind it under the heel of my boot. I suggest you learn to do the same | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4aa2fc5 | It should have been unbearable to face this sorry inventory, yet for some reason it was not. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8086fd0 | A sad-faced Russian woman tells us she's treating herself to Italian lessons because "I think I deserve something beautiful." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6612c36 | the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity. | life pleasure | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a84b82c | I love my life, I like to be cosmopolitan, I would like to visit the whole earth and love it all. | Annie Ernaux | ||
| 4713e61 | Death--so feared and so dodged--was, once you faced it, the simplest thing going. In order to die, one merely had to stop attempting to live. One merely had to agree to vanish. If Alma simply remained still, pinned beneath the bulk of this unknown opponent, she would be effortlessly erased. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 329907e | The unnecessary and superfluous volume of pure beauty around here is not to be believed. I can pick papayas and bananas right off the trees outside my bedroom window. There's a cat who lives here who is enormously affectionate to me for half an hour everyday before I feed him, then moans crazily the rest of the time likes he's having Vietnam war flashbacks. Oddly, I don't mind this. I don't mind anything these days. I can't imagine or remem.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 417192d | There is not a street in Naples in which some tough little kid in shorts and mismatched socks is not screaming up from the sidewalk to some other tough little kid on a rooftop nearby. Nor is there a building in this town that doesn't have at least one crooked old woman seated at her window, peering suspiciously down at the activity below. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 41be417 | The sound of the universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there is a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of the night dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters. Every morning around sunrise there is a tropical bird song competition, and it is always a ten way tie for the championship. When the sun comes .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5e8783d | She also knew this: if she had to kill somebody in order to save her own life, she would do so unhesitatingly. 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 38e775a | Por que te vas a meter en una diminuta caja de identidad pudiendo experimentar tu infinidad? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bbfae6d | The problem is that we're all full of desire; it is the very hallmark of our emotional existence, and it can lead to our downfall - and to the downfall of others. [...] Once upon a time, Aristophanes relates, there were gods in the heavens and humans down on earth. But we humans did not look the way we look today. Instead, we each had two heads and four legs and four arms - a perfect melding, in other words, of two people joined together, s.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f2929dc | Watch the heat of day pass into the cool night. Let go. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2c8bc73 | gallimaufry of ices and trifles and toasts, supervised | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 740acdd | Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering. Then, let go. Watch the heat of day pass into the cool night. Let go. When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go. When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| eb55191 | I would like never to travel again. I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent--and working at a pace so slow--that I would be able to hear myself living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ac5aeb9 | Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like bandit - will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't.. | life time | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| b9124da | La decepcion es la ira de los debiles. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0da43a7 | El ayer pudo ser glorioso, ciertamente, pero manana puedo verme convertida en un almacen de fuegos artificiales. Incluso en la Ciudad Eterna, nos dice el silencioso mausoleo, uno ha de estar siempre dispuesto a sufrir alteraciones convulsas, desenfrenadas e interminables. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6acf21f | bel far niente has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi - the art of making so.. | happiness life richness | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c40375f | Para hallar el equilibrio que buscas te tienes que convertir en esto. Debes tener los pies tan firmemente plantados en la tierra que parezca que tienes cuatro piernas en lugar de dos. De este modo podras estar en el mundo. Pero debes dejar de mirar el mundo con la mente. Tienes que mirarlo con el corazon. Asi llegaras a conocer a Dios. | equilibrio | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a61b497 | I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady. | feminism maturity old-lady rome | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 41bb9b9 | when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt--this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bb2107a | She knew this to be true. Maybe not tonight, but some night soon. She was not afraid of death, in theory. If anything, she had nothing but respect and reverence for the Genius of Death, who had shaped this world more than any other force. That said, she did not wish to die quite this moment. She still wanted to see what would happen next, as much as ever. The thing was to resist submersion for as long as possible. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e8637ff | I am very empty in the bank since the bomb. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 00a1f53 | En mi destino hay muchas cosas que se me escapan, pero hay otras que si estan bajo mi jurisdiccion. Hay una serie de billetes de loteria que puedo comprar, aumentando mis posibilidades de llegar a ser feliz. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ad1235f | Everything- for no reason whatsoever- is perfect. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cc1db37 | Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c5d086b | She felt the familiar old constriction in her chest - that combination of desire and urgency. She needed more hours - many more hours - if she was ever to study these questions as they deserved to be studied. She would never have enough hours. She had already lost so much time this week. Every soul in the world seemed to believe that Alma's hours belonged to him. How was she ever meant to devote herself to proper scientific exploration? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 47b56f2 | There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse. | memoir | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 2087236 | The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and that they will always look after her. The brothers inhabit the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and poetry. The brothers can be called upon in any critical situation for rescue and assistance. When you die, your four spirit brothers collet your soul.. | elizabeth-gilbert spirit | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c875494 | quien de nosotros vive sin hacer ciertos sacrificios? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f8890fa | But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it. | health planet world | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a49a673 | I also get that we women in particular must work very hard to keep our fantasies as clearly and cleanly delineated from our realities as possible, and that sometimes it can take years of effort to reach such a point of sober discernment. | memoir | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 1b1ad60 | no vemos nuestro reflejo en el agua en movimiento, sino en el agua quieta. | Elizabeth Gilbert |