Thinking too much just brings it back to me, me, me—but thanking takes my eyes off myself and my mistakes and puts them on others, on things bigger than myself. I can’t stand here very long without being humbled at how small I am and amazed at how big and beautiful our world is.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou... ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other... ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha... ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili... ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening... ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you. ELIZABETH KENNY When I dream, I am ageless. ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ELIZABETH BOWEN Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. ELIZABETH BOWEN A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. ELIZABETH GASKELL Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what... ELIZABETH HELLER We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of ti... ELIZABETH DREW Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but... ELIZABETH GASKELL Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting. ELIZABETH BOWEN Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w... ELIZABETH STONE Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. ELIZABETH BOWEN Don ELIZABETH TAYLOR I take, O cross, thy shadow For my abiding-place: I ask no other sunshine than The sunshin... ELIZABETH CLEPHANE Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. ELIZABETH FULLER The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. ELIZABETH JANEWAY I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. ELIZABETH BOWEN Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from co... ELIZABETH JANEWAY When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. ELIZABETH GASKELL Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a... ELIZABETH I Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. ELIZABETH BOWEN Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you... ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e... ELIZABETH I Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. ELIZABETH HARRISON Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all w... ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in... ELIZABETH DREW It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found ... ELIZABETH DUNPHY For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the ... ELIZABETH BLACKWELL