Elizabeth Berg Quotes

• Don't let your habits become handcuffs

  Elizabeth Berg

  Habit, Handcuffs

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

  Elizabeth Berg

  Inspirational, Family, Return

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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.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Bello, Pasado, Pensamiento

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.237, Random House

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• There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Happiness, Quilts, Laughter

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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

  Hands, Trying, Kind

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you know before you know.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Sometimes, Knows

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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• I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Life, Listening, Littles

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• People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hurt, Mean, People

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• Hice salsa de arándanos, y cuando estuvo hecha la puse en un cuenco azul oscuro por el bonito contraste. Estaba pensando, haciendo esto, en las antiguas formas de gratitud: Los indios daban las gracias al ciervo que habían matado, daban las gracias antes de cenar, se arrodillaban antes de acostarse. Pensaba que la gratitud está demasiado ausente en nuestras vidas y que necesitamos recuperarla, aunque sólo sea reconociendo el azul de un cuenco frente al rojo de los arándanos.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Dark

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Sound, Radio, Quiet

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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

  Elizabeth Berg

  Real, Lying, Moments

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Long Distance Relationship, Letting Go, Long Distant Relationship

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• It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true vision when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Ser, Personas, Visión

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Préstamo

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Gratitude, Art, Rocks

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• The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Opportunity, Incentives, Aging

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• You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Writing, Risk, Important

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• Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Loss, Taste, Funny Diet

  Elizabeth Berg (2008). “The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation”, p.137, Random House

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• You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Heart, Littles, Moments

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• I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Sleep, Eye, Loss

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• For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Real, Successful, People

  Elizabeth Berg (2007). “Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel”, p.195, Random House

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• There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Pensamiento, Gente, Oficina

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.193, Ballantine Books

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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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  Might, Able

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Pull Of The Moon”, p.197, Random House

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• It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Smart, Men

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Hombres, Pensar, Intentar

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