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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c3ee450 | With this cultural arsenal at their disposal, big liars can spin out falsehoods with the confidence that no one else has a large enough megaphone to challenge them. They can have their lies taught in classrooms, made into movies and TV shows, and reported in the everyday media as the unvarnished truth. This is how big lies come to be widely believed, sometimes even by the people who are being lied about. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 02c0ed9 | An author should have no other biography than his books. | B. Traven | ||
| 2186f68 | The biography of a creative man is completely unimportant. | B. Traven | ||
| e5e0c34 | Life is worth more than any book one can write. | B. Traven | ||
| 1613ac4 | The death ship is it I am in,All I have lost, nothing to win | B. Traven | ||
| 86499dd | coming at the interview from a | Michael Connelly | ||
| 8c51d32 | There's absolutely nothing that you can't learn if you go about it one step at a time. | B. Traven | ||
| 276e25c | she would like to spend as much time as possible in such a state of transcendence while she is still here on earth. That's all. That's what I call creative living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 851e816 | It is always more convenient to dream of what might be. | B. Traven | ||
| 14a8bd9 | To form a complete judgment of any one, we ought to have seen him acting the last part. (p. 126). | Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert | ||
| 3c938c1 | universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels--that's creative living. The courage to go on that hunt in the first place--that's what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one. The often surprising results of that hunt--that's what I call Big Magic. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fe85ec1 | The chickens look so plump and contented even in death that you imagine they offered themselves up for sacrifice proudly, after competing among themselves in life to see who could become the moistest and the fattest. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4f10888 | Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: "What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b05ab1c | As a #girlcrush of mine, Elizabeth Gilbert wrote in her epic book Big Magic, fear will always show up when we strive for great things and take risks because "fear hates uncertain outcome...This is all totally natural and human." It will always show up, and she thankfully adds, "It's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of." | Romi Neustadt | ||
| 3138a92 | It doesn't have to be perfect, and you don't have to be Plato. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9a2fb3e | history--what had happened between me and David. Further disregarding the Gilbert Family Standard Communications Rule-book, I actually told her. I told her everything. I told her how much I loved David, but how lonely and heartsick it made me to be with this person who was always disappearing from the room, from the bed, from the planet. "He sounds kind of like your father," she said. A brave and generous admission. "The problem is," I said.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 18bd7ea | The ability to respond is responsibility | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 94e6a66 | central beliefs of Calvinist teachings: You are responsible for your own situation in life, you are most likely doomed, and the future is terribly grim. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 46b2cc4 | You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures. You can battle your demons (through therapy, recovery, prayer, or humility) instead of battling your gifts--in part by realizing that your demons were never the ones doing the work, anyhow. You | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4f85e00 | He kept begging God, "Please, please, please open my heart." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bbe745a | The Geographical Distribution of Animals | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 91551ac | Human beings have been creative beings for a really long time--long enough and consistently enough that it appears to be a totally natural impulse. To put the story in perspective, consider this fact: The earliest evidence of recognizable human art is forty thousand years old. The earliest evidence of human agriculture, by contrast, is only ten thousand years old. Which means that somewhere in our collective evolutionary story, we decided i.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5970493 | Everything is so goddamn scary. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4aa9d8e | sometimes you count the days, sometimes you weigh them. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cf5f8ca | I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 31da1ff | In the end, it's all just violets trying to come to light. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a961c59 | there was dignity to be found in stoicism, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1c137b6 | but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c20c40c | The more lightly you can pass that time, the brighter your existence becomes. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 834cd73 | all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 66c4297 | Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b2f4946 | She's got this ability to shut me up when I start fretting over metaphysical questions, such as, "What is the nature of the universe?" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b0768a2 | Then there was a pop-surprise bonus side order brought over by the waitress for free--a serving of fried zucchini blossoms with a soft dab of cheese in the middle (prepared so delicately that the blossoms probably didn't even notice they weren't on the vine anymore). | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a0de853 | There were a few years there, lost in borderless despair, when I used to experience all the world's sadness as my own. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e4eecd1 | Anyhow, the golden rule in my family is this: If you're supporting yourself financially and you're not bothering anyone else, then you're free to do whatever you want with your life.) | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f092b4b | Third, nobody ever really listens to anybody else's complaints, anyhow, because we're all too focused on our own holy struggle, so basically you're just talking to a brick wall. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cf7d528 | She smiled sweetly at everyone and always acted like a total cooperator - but then she shaped her own world exactly to her liking while nobody was looking. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 77f7182 | Do you want to study under the great teachers? Is that it? Well, you can find them anywhere. They live on the shelves of your library; they live on the walls of museums; they live in recordings made decades ago. Your teachers don't even need to be alive to educate you masterfully. No living writer has ever taught me more about plotting and characterization than Charles Dickens has taught me--and needless to say, I never met with him during .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 090ae94 | I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1bcfb56 | The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7da0697 | Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d3681ba | The other day in prayer I said to God, "Look--I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1983a93 | Here, I pause to offer a prayer for my gentle reader: May you never, ever, have to get a divorce in New York.) | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7f5039c | Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." | Elizabeth Gilbert |