Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence. — Robin Sharma

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction. — Glen Duncan

The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experiment conducted by qualified experts, or the convictions of simple folks uncorrupted by civilisation
this view, in one form or another, is central to western thought, which stems from Plato and his disciples. — Isaiah Berlin

Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come. — Elyse Draper

Those who are inspired are willing to pay a premium or endure inconvenience, even personal suffering. Those who are able to inspire will create a following of people - supporters, voters, customers, workers - who act for the good of the whole not because they have to, but because they want to. — Simon Sinek

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr

Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more articles, ceaselessly refilling the pot-boiler of speech, gorging ourselves on it rather, seizing books and 'experiences', to metamorphose them as quickly as possible into other words, plugging us in here, being plugged in there, just like Mina on her blue squared oilcloth, extending the market and the trade in words of course, but also multiplying the chances of jouissance, scraping up intensities wherever possible, and never being sufficiently dead, for we too are required to go from forty to the hundred a day, and we will never play the whore enough, we will never be dead enough — Jean-Francois Lyotard

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority. — John Leguizamo

Born to be some body. You were born to be some body, maybe a vet, maybe a hero, maybe a care giver. What ever it is you were born to be some thing special and if you believe you can achieve — Justin Bieber

Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person? If we dare to really see people, in their dignity and humanity, then we shall discover the right words to say. — Pope Francis

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace. — Ariel Sharon

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Entering the phone booth, he did a phone thing.
Ring-ring-ring. — Philip K. Dick

The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it
even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them. — Elizabeth Gilbert