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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 384295c | Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 871bb3a | no hay nada que no tenga explicacion si uno tiene acceso a una biblioteca con buenos libros de referencia. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 36480ae | si experimentas la quietud necesaria con el tiempo descubriras que todo (lo incomodo y lo hermoso) pasa con el tiempo. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7511907 | En lo que tiene fe mi hermana es en el conocimiento. Su sagrada escritura es el diccionario Oxford. Cuando inclina la cabeza sobre el texto, pasando las paginas con sus raudos dedos, esta con su Dios. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 06185c5 | You need a droughtbreaker, baby. Gotta go find yo'self a rainmaker. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 47f6675 | Los devotos del mundo entero practican sus ritos sin tener garantizado que les sirva de nada. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 51a6e26 | How do you negotiate once you've offered everything? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 837e2d7 | Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dcea3b7 | Following that scavenger hunt of curiosity can lead you to amazing, unexpected places. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e356543 | It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| aab11fb | because creativity is mystical doesn't mean it shouldn't also be demystified--especially if it means liberating artists from the confines of their own grandiosity, panic, and ego. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7e37432 | So that's the final lesson, isn't it? When you set out in the world to help yourself, you inevitably end up helping- Tutti. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9112e6f | One does not leave so small and beautiful a female creature alone with ten heated men in the middle of the night. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 85396d1 | Even as a child, Alma innately comprehended that there were two types of silent men in the world: one type was meek and deferential; the other type was Dick Yancey. His eyes were a pair of slowly circling sharks, and as he stared at Alma now, those eyes were clearly saying: "Bring the rum." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9ab5484 | There were times when she looked up from her labors to ask her mother a question - looking over to the chair where Beatrix had always sat - and was startled by the nothingness to be found there. It was like looking at a spot on a wall where a clock had hung for years, and seeing only an empty space. She could not train herself not to look; the emptiness surprised her every time. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7835d64 | Never answer an anonymous letter. | Anonymity | ||
| 8af387e | There is only so long that a person can keep her enthusiasms locked away within her heart before she longs to share it with a fellow soul, and Alma had many decades of thoughts much overdue for sharing. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3c8d148 | You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more than that. They | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 667095b | Currents of humid wind swept down the mountainside. The air across the beach snapped and shimmied, like a bedsheet shaken out - as though the beach itself were shaking off the violence that had just been visited upon it. Then a humid calm would prevail, for a few hours or a few days, until another storm rolled in. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4200104 | Desire is the design flaw.") The" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 92f3cc4 | When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost. My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8325ad3 | But why must everything 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 only be about duty? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a560106 | The Bhagavad Gita--the ancient Indian yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dec6476 | It's not fair for you to come here," I tell Depression. "I paid you off already. I served my time back in New York." But he just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ac3a441 | ones who will be making any decisions along the way. I recognize and respect that you are part of this family, and so I will never exclude you from our activities, but still--your suggestions will never be followed. You're allowed to have a seat, and you're allowed to have a voice, but you are not allowed to have a vote. You're not allowed to touch the road maps; you're not allowed to suggest detours; you're not allowed to fiddle with the t.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5144d25 | Sincere spiritual investigation is, and always has been, an endeavor of methodical discipline. Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dc0198b | They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me--Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ee5d710 | True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 707bb5a | The brain scans and mood swings of an infatuated lover, scientists have recently discovered, look remarkably similar to the brain scans and mood swings of a cocaine addict-- and not surprisingly, as it turns out, because infatuation is an addiction, with measurable chemical effects on the brain. As the anthropologist and infatuation expert Dr. Helen Fisher has explained, infatuated lovers, just like any junkie, "will go to unhealthy, humili.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9db9ec5 | Fake it till you make it | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fa417b9 | Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cb96ea8 | And experience had already instructed Henry that learning things gave a person advantage over other people | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 88f0a69 | He had learned in the past four years to speak only when he knew that which he was speaking about. Moreover, he had learned that silence can sometimes relax a listener into thinking that one might be intelligent. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c1e7c55 | That s what her mother said 'Stop your weeping and carry on | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1b9731d | Your worth as a hostess consists in displaying the talents of your guests, not crowing about your own. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 81f6661 | You are an idealist, which means that you are destined to be disappointed, and perhaps even wounded. You seek a gospel of benevolence and miracle, which leaves no room for the sorrows of existence. You are like William Paley, arguing that the perfection of every design in the universe is proof of God's love for us. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d5c4ba3 | From the center of my life, there came a great fountain... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6050fd6 | Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| feee6bb | but she was old, and old women do tend to get pushed aside at big gatherings--even when they have footed the bill for that gathering. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e5eb490 | Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one. Americans spend billions to keep themselves amused with everything from porn to theme parks to wars, but that's not exactly the same thing as quiet enjoyment. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3c60f36 | We have shriveled down the notion of what constitutes "a family unit" to such a tiny scale that it would probably be unrecognizable as a family to anybody in one of those big, loose, enveloping Hmong clans. You almost need an electron microscope to study the modern Western family these days. What you've got are two, possibly three, or maybe sometimes four people rattling around together in a giant space, each person with her own private phy.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8f16697 | upped | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| eb65bfd | Later in life he reported that he had found his fame boring--not because it was immoral or corrupting, but simply because it was exactly the same thing every day. He was looking for something richer, more textured, more varied. So he dropped out. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1899fd4 | somewhat | Elizabeth Gilbert |