121 Quotes by Elizabeth Lesser

The secret in life is enjoying the passage of time. – RICHIE HAVENS.

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.

I have built up so much stuff, I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It’s a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.

Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don’t persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.

Prayer is allowing ourselves to be thirsty; it is a longing for something we just cannot seem to find. The Sufis say that our longing for God is God’s longing for us. In this way, prayer is like a conversation between friends separated across time and space.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

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.