C. Elizabeth Quotes

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)

The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.

Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.

To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.

I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.

I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.

Anyone whose lifestyle may frighten you or whose point of view makes smoke come out of your ears.

I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.

I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

I think it's better that people actually are saying what they feel. Especially, people are saying, I'm not heard. I don't have a voice in America.

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.

See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.

There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.

Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.

Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power

I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.

I think diversity of thinking and healing traditions from around the world are good for us. The movement itself has evolved enormously and it's been a thrill to be part of it.

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.