Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Gilbert

I think I deserve something beautiful.

Children | Enough | Regret | Think |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I always thought we only had two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust—thin and crispy, or thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin and doughy? Holy of holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise.

Absence | Children | Desire | Enough | People | Reason | Regret | Thinking | Witness | Think |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I told him: Maybe you could come to visit me in America someday, Ketut. Navia and shook his head cheerfully resigned to capacity: I cannot Liz, I do not have enough teeth to travel by plane

Absolution | Children | Clemency | Pain | People | Thought | Words | Friends | Thought |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Has become my thoughts more like neighbors veterans, annoying, but they have become dear, there is room for all of us in this neighborhood.

Distress | Effort | Enough | Good | Soul | Will | World | Crisis | Happiness |

Elizabeth Gilbert

If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.

Children | Conversation | Life | Life | Order | Sacred | Society | System | Will | Work | World | Society |

Elizabeth Gilbert

My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: I want a spiritual teacher.

People | Will | World | Happiness | Think |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Oh Krishna's mind concern, rough, strong and stubborn, and subjected to at least the difficulty of for subjecting the wind

Absolution | Business | Children | Clemency | Pain | People | Right | Thought | Words | Business | Friends | Thought |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

Children | Day | Desire | God | Little | Memory | Talking | God |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Dreams of doing good for good-for-nothing people.

Children | Sorrow |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And we talk'd--oh, how we talk'd! her voice so cadenc'd in the talking, made another singing--of the soul! a music without bars-- while the leafy sounds of woodlands, humming round where we were walking, brought interposition worthy--sweet,--as skies about the stars, and she spake such good thoughts natural, as if she always thought them.

Children | Love |

Elizabeth Gilbert

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

Madness |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but pain is not the fruit of pain.

Children | Life | Life | Sense | Words |

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.

Age | Children | Future | God | Parents | Rule | Will | God | Afraid |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

Conscience | Earth | Good | Happy | Labor | Laughter | Man | People | Wealth | Will | Worry |

Ellen Goodman

As for keeping the attack dogs from nibbling away your courage? My theory, after decades in this business, is that you only give a few people the right to make you feel rotten. You have a handful of chits to give out, penuriously, to those you trust and respect. You don't give them to just anyone with an e-mail address and an epithet.

Battle | Children | Opposition | Parents | Time |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brain of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of 'thus saith the Lord.

Children | Property |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

Children | Mind |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man — the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more — is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.

Authority | Children | Father | Looks | Mother | Respect | Respect | Child |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you.

Church | Sense |

Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Children | Means | Success | Training | Child |