Ellen Goodman Quotes

• Pasamos el 1 de enero recorriendo nuestras vidas, habitación por habitación, elaborando una lista de tareas pendientes, de grietas que hay que remendar. Tal vez este año, para equilibrar la lista, deberíamos recorrer las habitaciones de nuestras vidas... no en busca de defectos, sino de potencial.

  Ellen Goodman

  New Year, Drawing, Years

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• Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

  Ellen Goodman

  Jobs, Humor, Order

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• Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

  Ellen Goodman

  Ideas, Mindfulness, Savour

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

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• La salida airosa tiene truco. Empieza con la visión de reconocer cuándo un trabajo, una etapa de la vida, una relación ha terminado, y dejarlo ir. Significa dejar lo que se ha acabado sin negar su validez o su importancia pasada en nuestras vidas.

  Ellen Goodman

  Sad Love, Letting Go, Jobs

  "Ellen Goodman writes of letting go in her final column" by Ellen Goodman, www.washingtonpost.com. January 1, 2010.

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• It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.

  Ellen Goodman

  Life, Life Is, Stage

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• Nos dicen que la gente sigue enamorada por la química, o porque siguen intrigados el uno por el otro, por muchas bondades, por la suerte. Pero parte de ello tiene que ser el perdón y el agradecimiento.

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  Love, Forgiveness, Gratitude

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “At Large”

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• La lucha central de la paternidad es dejar que nuestras esperanzas para nuestros hijos pesen más que nuestros miedos.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspiración, Niños, Lucha

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• Quizá este año debamos recorrer las habitaciones de nuestras vidas no en busca de defectos, sino de potencial.

  Ellen Goodman

  Inspiración, New Year, Inspiración

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• This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

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  Stories, Next, Generations

  "Spring cleaning our lives" by Ellen Goodman, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2002.

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• Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

  Ellen Goodman

  Fall, Yesterday, Culture

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• How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

  Ellen Goodman

  Exercise, Joy, Lists

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• Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

  Ellen Goodman

  Trendy, Items, Values

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

  Ellen Goodman

  Real, Opinion, Reactions

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• Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

  Ellen Goodman

  Mistake, Sometimes, Made

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• When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

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  Toothpaste, Middle, Persons

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

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  Children, Goal, Excellence

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

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  Mother, Distance, Father

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

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  People, Age, Fifty

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “At Large”

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• Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

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  Loss, Age, Lines

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

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  Encouraging, Confidence, Hate

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• Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

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  Mean, Civility, Said

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• People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

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  Writing, People, Movement

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• women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all.

  Ellen Goodman

  Worry, Becoming, Superwoman

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

  Ellen Goodman

  Enough, Institutions, Access

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