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Causes Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great…
- There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And, 'Who's in charge?'…
- How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause…
- This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's…
- Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken…
- I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or…
More Causes Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
- It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we… — Michelle Bachelet