Perhaps this is why an institution is unlikely to feel or admit to shame; it may be unable to countenance the possibility that at root it is not what it purports, even to itself, to be. (quoted by Michael Barnett in Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda )
Elizabeth Spellman
Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it. EMM GRYNER To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... CRISTIANO RONALDO Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people... ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together. MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug... GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit... GERMANY KENT While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state... CHRISTINA ENGELA Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... BEN BROWN If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way... CATHERINE LACEY Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL
More Elizabeth Spellman
They had a tremendous upbringing at home. They were already good kids; true teammates, not only in b... DAN SPELLMAN If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie. BRIAN SPELLMAN No stupid questions? I question that! BRIAN SPELLMAN That's art. Nothing is for everybody. BRIAN SPELLMAN Okay, you won our shitty little argument. Pass the world. BRIAN SPELLMAN I can't name just one example. Then there's only one. BRIAN SPELLMAN I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting. BRIAN SPELLMAN He who laughs last laughs ... doesn't get it. BRIAN SPELLMAN Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day. BRIAN SPELLMAN GENERAL INTELLIGENCE! Form a straight line. BRIAN SPELLMAN We are impressed with the resources that the CMO Council provides to marketers, and we deeply believ... KATE SPELLMAN They're good but not all as good as each other. BRIAN SPELLMAN Nostalgia was never what it used to be. BRIAN SPELLMAN Allow me to contradict my clarifications and in no time we'll get to the bottom of nothing. BRIAN SPELLMAN I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it. BRIAN SPELLMAN I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse. BRIAN SPELLMAN I dreamed of being special then awoke to be unique. BRIAN SPELLMAN You can't have your cake and eat it too. Let them eat croissants. BRIAN SPELLMAN There's an ad for every vice. That's advice. BRIAN SPELLMAN Guards are the most important guys on the court. They have the ball in their hands 80 percent of the... DAN SPELLMAN We need to keep them off the offensive boards and limit them to one attempt (on offense). DAN SPELLMAN The success we've had this season is because they play so hard. DAN SPELLMAN I'm really happy for the kids. They really wanted to beat these guys especially after last year. DAN SPELLMAN I closed my eyes and I was praying. DAN SPELLMAN The first quarter happened so fast. They were playing a box-and-one. They had us out of sync on offe... DAN SPELLMAN We need to rely on our defense. We've won games that way and will continue. I hope they will respond... DAN SPELLMAN I wish every game was like this. It's a great environment. DAN SPELLMAN The memories he captured in a form of a tape is incredible. DAN SPELLMAN My son, I don’t believe in God, prayer, afterlife or miracles. You may disagree with me on all of ... BRIAN SPELLMAN The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused. BRIAN SPELLMAN Kindness knows no kind. BRIAN SPELLMAN Swallowed my pride and shit lions. BRIAN SPELLMAN Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes. BRIAN SPELLMAN CMP is in the unique position to provide SOHO entrepreneurs with expertise that broadens to full-blo... KATE SPELLMAN Our aim is to provide SOHO entrepreneurs with answers to the dozens of business questions that arise... KATE SPELLMAN A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to m... BRIAN SPELLMAN I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow. BRIAN SPELLMAN I am very pleased to do this in my final year. RUTH SPELLMAN A woman drove me to drink. I don't drink and drive. BRIAN SPELLMAN Months after my wrists ripping, a talk therapist referred to the act as self-hatred. Until then nobo... BRIAN SPELLMAN Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking.... FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the o... FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w... ELIZABETH ESTY The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ELIZABETH GASKELL When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le... ELIZABETH WARREN I'm a puzzle doer. ELIZABETH EDWARDS A good night in is a series of documentaries. ELIZABETH DEBICKI Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. ELIZABETH ARDEN If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Everything makes me nervous - except making films. ELIZABETH TAYLOR I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Marriage is a great institution. ELIZABETH TAYLOR I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes. ELIZABETH TAYLOR I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g... ELIZABETH TAYLOR I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on. ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? ELIZABETH TAYLOR I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. ELIZABETH TAYLOR So much to do, so little done, such things to be. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting. ELIZABETH TAYLOR I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. ELIZABETH TAYLOR When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom... ELIZABETH TAYLOR I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. ELIZABETH TAYLOR How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! ELIZABETH GASKELL Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ELIZABETH FRY Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. ELIZABETH FISHEL I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni... ELIZABETH BERKLEY The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w... ELIZABETH BOWEN I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. ELIZABETH BOWEN Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. ELIZABETH BOWEN Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart... ELIZABETH BOWEN Education is not so important as people think. ELIZABETH BOWEN Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. ELIZABETH BOWEN Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. ELIZABETH BOWEN Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha... ELIZABETH BOWEN Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ... ELIZABETH BOWEN Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ELIZABETH BOWEN Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. ELIZABETH BOWEN We are minor in everything but our passions. ELIZABETH BOWEN The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ... ELIZABETH BOWEN Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. ELIZABETH BOWEN It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock... ELIZABETH BOWEN Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. ELIZABETH BOWEN One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. ELIZABETH BOWEN Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. ELIZABETH BOWEN No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ELIZABETH BOWEN If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high... ELIZABETH ESTY Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ELIZABETH DREW Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. ELIZABETH DREW My God, I have so much bounty in my life. ELIZABETH MARVEL We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ... ELIZABETH ESTY I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting. ELIZABETH TAYLOR I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip... ELIZABETH WARREN I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa... ELIZABETH STROUT I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all. ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. ELIZABETH MOON My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. ELIZABETH MOON Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca... ELIZABETH EDWARDS Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin... ELIZABETH WARREN The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ... ELIZABETH EMKEN I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un... ELIZABETH REASER The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf... ELIZABETH WARREN Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu... ELIZABETH ESTY I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab... ELIZABETH GILBERT I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask... ELIZABETH BERKLEY Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im... ELIZABETH BERKLEY I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ELIZABETH GASKELL The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in... ELIZABETH DREW As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive... ELIZABETH KOSTOVA To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! ELIZABETH GASKELL The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it... ELIZABETH HARDWICK I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ... ELIZABETH GASKELL I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. ELIZABETH GASKELL Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster... ELIZABETH II If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ... ELIZABETH GEORGE Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult. ELIZABETH KAY perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it. my world just... ELIZABETH KAY You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide ELIZABETH KAY Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome... ELIZABETH HURLEY Minds ripen at very different ages. ELIZABETH MONTAGU My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will... ELIZABETH GILLIES You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. ELIZABETH TAYLOR If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno... ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage ELIZABETH TAYLOR There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g... ELIZABETH WARREN The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re... ELIZABETH BOWEN Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ELIZABETH BOWEN Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. ELIZABETH BOWEN When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ELIZABETH BOWEN The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it... ELIZABETH BOWEN The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate... ELIZABETH HARDWICK Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. ELIZABETH BERG Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No... ELIZABETH FLOCK People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn... ELIZABETH GILBERT You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai... ELIZABETH GILBERT The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating ELIZABETH SCOTT The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o... ELIZABETH GILBERT The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing... ELIZABETH ALDER You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ... ELIZABETH GILBERT To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o... ELIZABETH GILBERT Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b... ELIZABETH WINDER I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w... ELIZABETH GILBERT But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling... ELIZABETH GILBERT Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom": 1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions. 2. You have just cl... ELIZABETH GILBERT Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug... ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be... ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny... ELIZABETH GILBERT How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly. ELIZABETH GASKELL Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa... ELIZABETH WEIN I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye... ELIZABETH GILBERT Fear--who cares? ELIZABETH GILBERT I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo... ELIZABETH WEIN Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming her... ELIZABETH SCOTT People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i... ELIZABETH GILBERT It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always... ELIZABETH GILBERT Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed. ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin... ELIZABETH GILBERT We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti... ELIZABETH GILBERT You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s... ELIZABETH GILBERT I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine. ELIZABETH GILBERT I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. ELIZABETH GILBERT I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t... ELIZABETH GILBERT Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One. ELIZABETH GILBERT Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you wan... ELIZABETH GILBERT I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ... ELIZABETH GILBERT One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex... ELIZABETH GILBERT It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away. ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin... ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. ELIZABETH GILBERT In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful. ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i... ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m... ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an... ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio... ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ... ELIZABETH GILBERT