Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Sleep
  • Drag
  • Potent

• Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Culture
  • Nice
  • Positive

• We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.

  

  George Benson
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Pleasure
  • Melancholy
  • Drag

• Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Distrust
  • Sink
  • Condemnation

• You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Crap
  • Drag
  • Lining

• Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Down
  • Drag
  • Holding

• I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Philosophy
  • Swim
  • Sink

• If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it's not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You've got to keep the energy up.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Drag

• Don't let the whirlwinds drag you down. These are your days - to stand strong as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Strong
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• Drag has always been very political and challenging of societal norms and other aspects of life.

  

  Aquaria
  • Life
  • Political
  • Drag

• It's not anything serious. But it makes more sense to miss a couple of days now than have it drag on through camp.

  

  Brian Leetch
  • Drag
  • Camp

• You have a divine right to choose whom you will play with and under what circumstances. By eliminating any energy drag, the positive good things in your life will resonate faster and faster.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Energy
  • Circumstances
  • Divine

• If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

  

  Joy Harjo
  • Sadness
  • Noise
  • Drag

• How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Deep
  • Flaws
  • Sink

• The hooting of the owl with its tender wing is more familiar to me than the crowing of the cock. I prefer the strings to the woodwinds. Intermission: that is the darkness. The light feels like a vague scratching; it is malaise rather than pain. I am glad to sink back into darkness.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Pain
  • Darkness
  • Glad

• Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Summer
  • Spring

• The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

  

  J. D. McClatchy
  • Knows
  • Criticism
  • Reluctant

• Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Difficult
  • Inspiring
  • Motherhood

• I'm stuck on this planet with you. And honestly, I'm glad. I've been exposed to a lot of awful people in the last few months, but I've met so many more that are amazing, thoughtful, generous, and kind. I honestly believe that is the human condition. And if the Carls are testing us, this final test is the hardest to accomplish. If you pay attention, there is only one story that makes sense, and that is one in which humanity works together more and more since we took over this planet. Yeah, we fuck it up all the time, yeah, there have been some massive steps backward, but look at us! We are one species now more than we have ever been. People fight against that, and they probably always will, but could there be any time in history when what Carl is asking would be more possible?

  

  Hank Green
  • People
  • Planet
  • Human Condition

• Life is short, I have no time for drama.

  

  Caroline Manzo
  • Life
  • Drama
  • No Time

• Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Drag
  • Sink
  • Rescuing