(“iPod Series-Meredith Grey” -By TH3L —www.deviantART.com)
“Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we’re wired that way. Because without it, I don’t know; maybe we just wouldn’t feel real. What’s that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.”
(“Lightning” -By Torsten_Hufsky –www.deviantART.com)
“Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
Being that the movie adaptation will be dropping on August 13th, 2010 (w/ Julia Roberts as the lead no less), I wanted to share some quotes from the book, that I personally have highlighted, doggy-earred, and underlined. LOVE the book….can’t wait to see the film!
“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure–your perfection–is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert from “Eat, Pray, Love”
“When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.”
“So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. Eventually feels a lot better than actually.”
- Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey
Carrie Bradshaw:
“As we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal will find herself a little lost. And when that happens, I guess she has to let go of the coulda, shoulda, woulda, buckle up and just keep going.”
[In honor of "Sex and the City 2" being released this weekend, I'm posting some great quotes from the show. ENJOY!]
(“Sarah Jessica parker” By ValiantArtist– www.deviantART.com)
Carrie : “Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”
(“Love” by Auroille–www.deviantART.com)
From her novel “A Spy in the House of Love”:
“You haven’t loved yet,” he said. “You’ve only been trying to love, beginning to love. Trust alone is not love, desire alone is not love, illusion is not love, dreaming is not love. All these were paths leading you out of yourself, it is true, and so you thought they led to another, but you never reached the other. You were only on the way.”
(“Be Like Water” By Mur4s4me –www.deviantART.com)
“The Warrior of Light sometimes behaves likes water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.
Occasionally, resistance might mean destruction, and so he adapts to the circumstances. He accepts, without compliant, that the stones in his path hinder his way through the mountains.
Therein lies the strength of water: it cannot be touvhed by a hammer or ripped to shreds by a knife. The strongest sword in the world cannot scar its surface.
Teh river adapts itself to whatever route proves possible, but the river never forgets its one obejective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it gradually gatheres the strength of the other rivers it encounters.
And, after a certain point, its power is absolute.”
“Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry?
This: ??!!
For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark–my thirst for books, my observations of people, all tend to satisfy a great, overwhelming desire to know, to understand, to find an answer to a million questions. And gradually the answers are revealed, many things are explained, and above all, many things are given names and described, and my restlessness is subdued. Then I become an exclamatory person, clapping my hands to the immense surprises the world holds for me, and falling from one ecstasy into another. I have the habit of peeping and prying and listening and seeking–passionate curiosity and expectation. But I have also the habit of being surprised, the habit of being filled with wonder and satisfaction each time I stumble on some wondrous thing. The first habit could make me a philosopher or a cynic or perhaps a humorist. But the other habit destroys all the delicate foundations, and I find each day that I am still…only a Woman!”
“beware of the one who calls his/herself an artist yet lacks the confidence to display an original identity of his/her own.
art is an expression of the individual’s reality or lack thereof. art is an expression of the individual’s vulnerability. art is a personal journey that each & every artist embarks upon to invent bodies of work that speak deeply from their spirits. do not confuse invention with inspiration, as it is fulfilling to be inspired by others. however it is when you refuse to give credit where it is due that you lose as an artist.
be inspired.
push forward.
create & enjoy your own reality.
i will do the same.”
Young Noah: Would you just stay with me?
Young Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we’re already fightin’!
Young Noah: Well that’s what we do, we fight… You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I’m not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you’re back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing.
Young Allie: So what?
Young Noah: So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s gonna be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What’s it look like? If it’s with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that’s what you really wanted. But don’t you take the easy way out.
Young Allie: What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt.
Young Noah: Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants? Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want? What do you WANT?
Meredith (narrating):
“We begin life with few obligations. We pledge allegiance to the flag. We swear to return our library books. But as we get older we take vows, make promises, get burden by commitments, to do no harm, to tell the truth and nothing but, to love, to cherish till death do us part. So we just keep running up the tap ’til we owe everything to everybody and suddenly … what the????”
Episode 4: “Tainted Obligation” Season 6
Debbie Harry is probably one of the most iconic figures of the new wave/ punk rock scene of the mid-1970′s. She was a gorgeous woman with a huge talent….I adore her.
Check out the photos after the quote.
Excerpt taken from “Just Kids” a memoir written by Patti Smith:
“Robert had little patience with these introspective bouts of mine. He never seemed to question his artistic drives, and by his example, I understood that what matters is the work: the string of words propelled by God becoming a poem, the weave of color and graphite scrawled upon the sheet that magnifies His motion. To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-charged.”
