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Place Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too."…
- There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to…
- This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated…
- Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of…
- In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they…
- The resting place of the mind is the heart.
- The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and…
- Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people…
- You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
- This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated…
- The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from…
- Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow,…
- Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies
- But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling…
- Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and…
- It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's…
- Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you…
- So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.
- a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook…
- I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able…
- Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary…
More Place Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden