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| 4b80cd2 | I believe that we are half-blind and full of errors. I believe that we understand very little, and what we do understand is mostly wrong. I believe that life cannot be survived--that is evident!--but if one is lucky, life can be endured for quite a long while. If one is both lucky and stubborn, life can sometimes even be enjoyed. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f42ef62 | within | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d2434eb | The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: "So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fdb4aff | said: "We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we're so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don't give a damn what anyone thinks of us. But you won't be completely free until you reach your sixties and seventies, when you finally realize this liberating truth--nobody was ever thinking about you, a.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b12767c | It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery. | slavery | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 73b8e33 |
No hay ciudad que pueda vivir pacificamente, sean cuales sean sus leyes>>, escribio Platon, < |
Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d6e605a | is no love which does not become help," taught the theologian Paul Tillich.)" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d44f589 | Which left me with nothing but a dazzled heart and the sense that I live in a most remarkable world, thick with mysteries. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bc313c5 | Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that idea becomes yours. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 18273d5 | Do I have the right to experience pleasure and peace? If so, what would bring me pleasure and peace? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cd0829d | Alma came to admire sailors. She could not imagine how they endured such long periods of time away from the comforts of land. How did they not go mad? The ocean both stunned and disturbed her. Nothing had ever put more of an impression upon her being. It seemed to her the very distillation of matter, the very masterpiece of mysteries. One night they sailed through a diamond field of liquid phosphorescence. The ship churned up strange molecu.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 39faa16 | I recently read a fabulous blog by a writer named Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: "What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 76e3714 | You study Yoga in India, Liss?" he asks. "Yes, Ketut." "You can do Yoga," he says, "but Yoga too hard." Here, he contorts himself in a cramped lotus position and squinches up his face in a comical and constipated-looking effort. Then he breaks free and laughs, asking, "Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f819fa8 | When you insist on your limitations, you are stuck with them. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6c45462 | I asked one Sicilian if those buildings were made of cheap concrete and he said, "Oh, no -this is very expensive concrete. In each batch, there are a few bodies of people who were killed by the Mafia, and that costs money. But it does make the concrete stronger to be reinforced with all those bones and teeth." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 789af26 | I was an exceptionally freaked-out child. My earliest memories are of fear, as are pretty much all the memories that come after my earliest memories. Growing up, I was afraid not only of all the commonly recognized and legitimate childhood dangers: the dark, strangers, the deep end of the swimming pool, but I was also afraid of an extensive list of completely benign things: snow, perfectly nice babysitters, cars, playgrounds, stairs, Sesame.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 57fc884 | The fun part (the part where it doesn't feel like work at all) is when you're actually creating something wonderful, and everything's going great, and everyone loves it, and you're flying high. But such instants are rare. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6f454d3 | excited, I want to pause for a moment and ask you to consider all the negative conclusions that I could have drawn about this incident, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1fe2b25 | But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pieces of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone? And isn't our individual longing for transcendence all just part of this larger human search for divini.. | infinity life spirituality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 593c7ef | utopia, a place that has known only peace and harmony and balance | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bd9e409 | Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom. | ideas inspiration live work | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 8eeec05 | Di la verdad, di la verdad, di la verdad>>. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3ce2161 | say, this is literally a pedestrian | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e7fc506 | Galopamos por la vida como artistas de circo que se bambolean precariamente a lomos de dos veloces caballos; un pie va sobre el caballo llamado Destino y el otro, sobre el caballo llamado Libre Albedrio. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4180e0c | 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. | life pain words | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| acf6cff | Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody--so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 141676f | I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life--whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook). | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dfec41d | None of it was ever easy, but that wasn't the point. I had never asked writing to be easy; I had only asked writing to be interesting. And it was always interesting to me. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3a2e19d | So I don't try to kill off my fear. I don't go to war against it. Instead, I make all that space for it. Heaps of space. Every single day. I'm making space for fear right this moment. I allow my fear to live and breathe and stretch out its legs comfortably. It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2196860 | I was a sensitive and easily traumatized creature who would fall into fits of weeping at any disturbance in her force field. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9fa64cd | Which left me with nothing but a dazzled heart and the sense that I live in a most remarkable world, thick with mysteries. It all called to mind the British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington's memorable explanation of how the universe works: "Something unknown is doing we don't know what." But the best part is: I don't need to know what." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2d1a116 | You have got to be fucking kidding me. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 002b152 | Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f660373 | I have nothing against any of these terms. I feel they are all equal because they are all equally adequate and inadequate descriptions of the indescribable. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 28c8521 | l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dd048ff | The unnecessary and superfluous volume of pure beauty around here is not the be believed. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 567bc9d | We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable: | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 50f8f3d | I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same thing anyway?" "Same - same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy on journey." I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is..." "Love, too," he said." | hell life philosophy spirituality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 1a46967 | gelato. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 26c1049 | toga. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8b650e0 | Katie Arnold-Ratliff. Katie writes like a dream. But she told me that she'd | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4d6e631 | An unchecked ego is what the Buddhists call "a hungry ghost"--forever famished, eternally howling with need and greed." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 54886f0 | Go be whomever you want to be, then. Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life. Create whatever you want to create--and | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fd7d6a5 | My ultimate choice, then, is to always approach my work from a place of stubborn gladness. | Elizabeth Gilbert |