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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3bd2188 | Just write anything and put it out there with reckless abandon. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 241d82e | True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7586d96 | Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a0b3715 | What the deuce does religion have to do with being a good minister? It is a profession like any other profession, young man. You fit yourself to the task, and keep your opinions private. That is what all good ministers do--or should! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f629ede | These adaptations did not | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ebf87e0 | Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents (eating the couch, digging a hole through the living room floor, biting the mailman, etc.). It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I a.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f886906 | Is it sometimes a difficult path? Sure. Does it make for an interesting life? The most. Will the inevitable difficulties and obstacles associated with creativity make you suffer? That part--cross my heart--is entirely up to you. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7c5c6a7 | Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2cac974 | Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? Look, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1886dcb | The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. The | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d3ae277 | You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 861109d | Que sucederia al crear una vida lo bastante expansiva como para poder sincronizar varios contrarios incongruentes en un esquema vital que no excluyera nada? Mi verdad era exactamente la que habia contado al curandero de Bali... Es decir, queria experimentar ambas cosas. Queria los placeres mundanos y la trascendencia divina..., la gloria dual de una vida humana. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5e27d6e | Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies (or however the old adage goes), some wonderful things did happen to me in the shadow of all that sorrow. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7e24152 | There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 10deb8f | I had only asked writing to be interesting. And it was always interesting to me. Even when I couldn't do it right, it was still interesting to me. It still interests me. Nothing has ever interested me more. That profound sense of interest kept me working, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7972196 | What happened now?" he would ask -- another man thoroughly exhausted by me." -- | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 69f6b89 | as a friend's grandfather once put it, "Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dabeca7 | All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life--collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ebb57f0 | But Alma thought it would kill her, this profundity of sorrow. She could not sound out the bottom of it. She had been sinking into it for a year and a half, and feared she would sink forevermore. She cried herself out on Hanneke's neck, sobbing forth the harvest of her long-darkened spirits. She must have poured a tankard of tears down Hanneke's bosom, but Hanneke did not move or speak, except to repeat, "There, there, child. It will not ki.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c25d175 | One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your grief--no more than the rest of us ever have." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c681c67 | Then you made an expensive error. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b7d3778 | Plantain branches, like these ones here, Sister Whittaker, are also said to be symbolic of the human body. Because of that shape, plantains are used as gestures of peace--as gestures of humanity, you might say. You throw one on the ground at the feet of your enemy, to show your surrender or your willingness to consider compromise. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cd6a241 | as a songwriter, the only thing I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 089dca9 | I was born into argument. Argument was my first nursemaid. Argument is my lifelong bedfellow. What's more, I believe in argument and I even love it. Argument is our most steadfast pathway toward truth, for it is the only proven arbalest against superstitious thinking, or lackadaisical axioms. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 324929f | Treasure of my soul," he said. He took one of her hands, brought it to his lips, and kissed it, just above the knuckles, as he had been doing every night for the last month, since their engagement. "You have brought me such peace." "Ambrose," she replied, amazed by his name, amazed by his face. "It is in our sleep that we most closely glimpse the power of the spirit," he said. "Our minds will speak across this narrow distance. It will be he.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 94e3227 | To know God, you need only to renounce one thing--your sense of division from God. Otherwise, just stay as you were made, within your natural character. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 95a0e15 | Henry sailed from England in July of 1776. The stated objectives of Cook's third expedition were twofold. The first was to sail to Tahiti, to return Sir Joseph Banks's pet--the man named Omai--to his homeland. Omai had grown tired of court life and now longed to return home. He had become sulky and fat and difficult, and Banks had grown tired of his pet. The second task was to then sail north, all the way up the Pacific coast of the America.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e609031 | Nothing is so essential as dignity, girls, and time will reveal who has it | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c0e011f | crime is to cut short the experiment of one's own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness and a pity--for the experiment of life will cut itself off soon enough, in all our cases, and one may just as well have the courage and the curiosity to stay in the battle until one's eventual and inevitable demise. Anything less than a fight for endurance is cowardly. Anything less than a fight for endurance is a refusal of the great coven.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dbd257b | But I was supposed to want to have a baby. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d25961b | at any given moment, and that night, going back to | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4c6b994 | We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.")" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cbaadd7 | Alma learned that her father drank out of bottles in the evening, and that those bottles sometimes contained danger (raised voices; banishment), but could also contain miracles--such | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4f71168 | Don't fret about the irrationality and unpredictability of all this strangeness. Give in to it. Such is the bizarre, unearthly contract of creative living. There is no theft; there is no ownership; there is no tragedy; there is no problem. There is no time or space where inspiration comes from--and also no competition, no ego, no limitations. There is only the stubbornness of the idea itself, refusing to stop searching until it has found an.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d849300 | Later in life, when Alma was a woman of science, she would better understand how the introduction of any new element into a controlled environment will alter that environment in manifold and unpredictable ways, but as a child, all she sensed was a hostile invasion and a premonition of doom. Alma did not embrace her interloper with a warm heart. Then again, why should she have? Who among us has ever warmheartedly embraced an interloper? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cc8d397 | Find your mercy | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2f18623 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7c5b930 | word ciao comes from. (If you must know, it's an abbreviation of a phrase used by medieval Venetians as an intimate salutation: Sono il suo schiavo! Meaning: "I am your slave!")" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1d48fdb | The word paradise, by the way, which comes to us from the Persian, means literally "a walled garden." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| be8f2e4 | Where there is life, George, there is still hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 86419ef | If the person of most consequence in the world has chosen to prefer us over all others, then we become accustomed to having what we wish for. Wasn't that the case with you, as well? How can we not feel that we are strong--people like you and me? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e80f6d5 | fact was not merely true about the lives of human beings; it was also true of every living entity on the planet, from the largest creation down to the humblest. It was | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 579f875 | Not merely alive, but outfitted with a mind that was functioning at the uppermost limits of its capacity--a mind that was seeing everything, and understanding everything, as though watching it all from the highest imaginable ridge. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c19e8ef | CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | Anonymous (group) |