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

• 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

• When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Find
  • Talent
  • Grow

• Not a day goes by that I don't still need to remind myself that my life is not just what's handed to me, nor is it my list of obligations, my accomplishments or failures, or what my family is up to, but rather it is what I choose, day in and day out, to make of it all. When I am able simply to be with things as they are, able to accept the day's challenges without judging, reaching, or wishing for something else, I feel as if I am receiving the privilege, coming a step closer to being myself. It's when I get lost in the day's details, or so caught up in worries about what might be, that I miss the beauty of what is.

  

  Katrina Kenison
  • My Life
  • Choose
  • Be Able

• Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Trains

• Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Happiness
  • Weight
  • Equilibrium

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

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Drag
  • Sink
  • Rescuing