Elizabeth Berg (author) Quotes

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The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

Elizabeth Berg
I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

Elizabeth Berg
Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

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I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

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She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

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My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

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You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

Elizabeth Berg
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

Elizabeth Berg
Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.

Elizabeth Berg
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

Elizabeth Berg
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

Elizabeth Berg
If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

Elizabeth Berg