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Category: Elizabeth Berg

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.

wisdom-inspirational

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.

I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we’re all too shy to show what matters the most. If you ask me, it’s a major design flaw. We ought to be able to say, Here, look what I am. I think it would be quite a relief.

humanity, people, understanding

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

life, point-of-view, understanding

Don’t let your habits become handcuffs

growth, inspirational

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I’ve always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

life-lessons, loneliness, longing

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

anonymous, call, elizabeth-berg, joy-school, teen, teenagers, teens, young

It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don’t really know it. You can only have true visions 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.

insight, intentions, people, visions

You don’t get everything all at once. You wait.

Are these real diamonds?” I once asked, and she said, “Why have them if they’re not?

We are assumed to be rather hopeless — swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

I think it’s a real gift to be able to say that what’s in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.