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But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business.
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Just because creativity is mystical doesn't mean it shouldn't also be demystified--especially if it means liberating artists from the confines of their own grandiosity, panic, and ego.
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Tiramisu for desert.
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It was like one of those dreams where you discover a previously unknown room in your house and you have that expansive feeling that your life has more possibility to it than you thought it did.
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I realized that, as a songwriter, the only thing I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds.
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People convince themselves that they have been robbed when they have not, in fact, been robbed. Such thinking comes from a wretched allegiance to the notion of scarcity--from the belief that the world is a place of dearth, and that there will never be enough of anything to go around. The motto of this mentality is: Somebody else got mine.
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If what I've written here ends up helping you, that's great, and I will be glad. That would be a wonderful side effect. But at the end of the day, I do what I do because I like doing it.
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When I talk about "creative living" here, please understand that I am not necessarily talking about pursuing a life that is professionally or exclusively devoted to the arts. I'm not saying that you must become a poet who lives on a mountaintop in Greece, or that you must perform at Carnegie Hall, or that you must win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. (Though if you want to attempt any of these feats, by all means, have at it. I l..
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We're all related, after all, so there's going to be some repetition of creative instinct. Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that idea becomes yours.
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You made it; your get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given.
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Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace!
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Any place that one could not leave was not large--particularly if one was a naturalist!
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner--continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you--is a fine art, in and of itself. Because creative living is where Big Magic will always abide.
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The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying. We are all the chosen few. We are all makers by design.
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I mean, if you cannot repeat a once-in-a-lifetime miracle--if you can never again reach the top--then why bother creating at all? Well, I can actually speak about this predicament from personal experience, because I myself was once "at the top"--with a book that sat on the bestseller list for more than three years. I can't tell you how many people said to me during those years, "How are you ever going to top that?" They'd speak of my great ..
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Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don't you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching. But that love you felt, that's just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. That's just limited little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. You have the capactiy to someday love the whole world. It's your destiny. Don't lau..
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When the nineteenth-century Hungarian mathematician Janos Bolyai invented non-Euclidean geometry, his father urged him to publish his findings immediately, before someone else landed on the same idea, saying, "When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places, in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring."
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Nunca olvides que una vez, en el momento mas inesperado, te viste a ti misma como una amiga.
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I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.
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Me importan un bledo las evidencias y las pruebas y las demostraciones. Lo unico que busco es a Dios. Quiero tener a Dios dentro de mi. Quiero que Dios corra por mis venas como el sol corretea por la superficie del agua.
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Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. It's
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Perfectionism is a particularly evil lure for women, who, I believe, hold themselves to an even higher standard of performance than do men. There are many reasons why women's voices and visions are not more widely represented today in creative fields. Some of that exclusion is due to regular old misogyny, but it's also true that--all too often--women are the ones holding themselves back from participating in the first place. Holding back th..
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Just write anything and put it out there with reckless abandon.
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True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment
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Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down.
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What the deuce does religion have to do with being a good minister? It is a profession like any other profession, young man. You fit yourself to the task, and keep your opinions private. That is what all good ministers do--or should!
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These adaptations did not
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Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents (eating the couch, digging a hole through the living room floor, biting the mailman, etc.). It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I a..
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Is it sometimes a difficult path? Sure. Does it make for an interesting life? The most. Will the inevitable difficulties and obstacles associated with creativity make you suffer? That part--cross my heart--is entirely up to you.
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Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I
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Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? Look,
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. The
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You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Que sucederia al crear una vida lo bastante expansiva como para poder sincronizar varios contrarios incongruentes en un esquema vital que no excluyera nada? Mi verdad era exactamente la que habia contado al curandero de Bali... Es decir, queria experimentar ambas cosas. Queria los placeres mundanos y la trascendencia divina..., la gloria dual de una vida humana.
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Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies (or however the old adage goes), some wonderful things did happen to me in the shadow of all that sorrow.
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I had only asked writing to be interesting. And it was always interesting to me. Even when I couldn't do it right, it was still interesting to me. It still interests me. Nothing has ever interested me more. That profound sense of interest kept me working,
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What happened now?" he would ask -- another man thoroughly exhausted by me." --
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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as a friend's grandfather once put it, "Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone."
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All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life--collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand.
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But Alma thought it would kill her, this profundity of sorrow. She could not sound out the bottom of it. She had been sinking into it for a year and a half, and feared she would sink forevermore. She cried herself out on Hanneke's neck, sobbing forth the harvest of her long-darkened spirits. She must have poured a tankard of tears down Hanneke's bosom, but Hanneke did not move or speak, except to repeat, "There, there, child. It will not ki..
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One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your grief--no more than the rest of us ever have."
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Then you made an expensive error.
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