People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we're all too shy to show what matters the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“People like to be addressed specificlly, it makes them important.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example.… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it’s tissue paper. And I think the times it’s tissue paper are when you need to keep… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I should have said “powder room.” That would evoke the image of me sitting before a beautiful gold mirror, a vase of fresh flowers… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Martha’s so bad. I think I want her for a friend instead of you. When I look at her magazine, I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more. It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
