Greedy Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert — Download Open image

“longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness”

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That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like,…

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“Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over…

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“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have ever desired something and then didn't get it (or, worse, got it and subsequently lost it) know full well the suffering of which the Buddah spoke. Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of…

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“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives have the potential to breed their own brand of trouble. We are susceptible to emotional uncertainties and neuroses that are probably not very common among the Hmong, but that run rampant these days among my contemporaries…

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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary…

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I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme intelligence longs to be known. It calls out to us. It draws us close to its mystery,…

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Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might become if I'm not careful: Crazy Aunt Liz. The divorcee in the muumuu with the dyed orange hair who doesn't eat dairy but smokes menthols, who's always just coming back from her astrology cruise or…

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“Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.”

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The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the…

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I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to,…

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“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build…

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“THE UNFORGIVEN Tell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people: The kind who take and don't give. The kind to whom you give and give, And they keep asking. The kind to whom you give and give and they say you gave nothing. The kind whom have never offered anything, But act like they're the…

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“Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!”

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I'm not greedy. I just want my half.

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The moment one starts sharing one's being without any motive life becomes a sweet fragrance. It is all honey. Then everything remains the same, yet nothing is the same any more. When your heart beats in harmony, in love, in joy, when you are no longer greedy, when there are no desires and no ambitions, and when there are no…

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