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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 43120e2 | This is the part of the process where I wish I'd never engaged with this idea at all. I remember this. I always go through this stage." Or: "This is the part where I tell myself that I'll never write a good sentence again." Or: "This is the part where I beat myself up for being a lazy loser." Or: "This is the part where I begin fantasizing in terror about how bad the reviews are going to be--if this thing even gets published at all." Or, on.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| be6fb2e | Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering. Then, let go. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b15b2fa | Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 726be0d | The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth--the virtues or the malevolence. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 82a12bb | So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" "Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only--make you in peace." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e238b11 | Either way, the vulnerable human ego is protected. Protected from the corrupting influence of praise. Protected from the corrosive effects of shame. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5c19d2d | But you do not need your fear in the realm of creative expression. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f0f7625 | Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time--when pursued like a bandit--will behave like one; always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1f45df8 | That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what your ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| df961ec | Only the blue sky, green land alliance can make Taiwan better. | Annette Lu | ||
| 524057d | I kept waiting for a big idea to arrive, and I kept announcing to the universe that I was ready for a big idea to arrive, but no big ideas arrived. There were no goose bumps, no hairs standing up on the back of my neck, no butterflies in my stomach. There was no miracle. It was like Saint Paul rode his horse all the way to Damascus and nothing happened, except maybe it rained a bit. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bcc6657 | I finally said, "Tutti, where did you learn to speak such good English?" "From a book!" she proclaimed. "I think you are a very clever girl," I informed her. "Thank you!" she said, and did a spontaneous little happy dance. "You are a very clever girl, too!" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 118d186 | Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely. | understanding | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 092a396 | I realized as a songwriter that all I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds. | philosophy-of-life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 8bb722b | It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1f80008 | Pure, clean, void, tranquil, breathless, selfless, endless, undecaying, steadfast, eternal, unborn, independent, he abides in his own greatness, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c615bee | I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a pound of potatoes, boiled them up, sliced them, fried them in butter, salted them generously and ate every bite of them--asking my body the whole while if it would please accept the satisfaction of a pound of fried potatoes in lieu of the fulfillment of lovemaking. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a6ea792 | Qualquer movimento e melhor do que a inercia, pois a inspiracao sempre sera atraida para o movimento. | criatividade | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 37c283c | You are not required to save the world with your creativity. Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words; it also doesn't have to be important. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e81da3e | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2cc0553 | And what if people absolutely hate what you've created? What if people attack you with savage vitriol, and insult your intelligence, and malign your motives, and drag your good name through the mug? Just smile sweetly and suggest - as politely as you possibly can - that they go make their own fucking art. Then stubbornly continue making yours. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8d3ea42 | And what if people absolutely hate what you've created? What if people attack you with savage vitriol, and insult your intelligence, and malign your motives, and drag your good name through the mud? Just smile sweetly and suggest - as politely as you possibly can - that they go make their own fucking art. Then stubbornly continue making yours. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 31f0cdf | So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 39405d5 | Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs 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 am n.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bfba4ca | You are worthy, dear on, regardless of the outcome. You will keep making your work, regardless of the outcome. You will keep sharing your work, regardless of the outcome. You were born to create, regardless of the outcome. You will never lose trust in the creative process, even when you don't understand the outcome. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e05e2ce | The hub of calmness--that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 98994ab | my work loves me as much as I love it--that it wants to play with me as much as I want to play with it--and that this source of love and play is boundless. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0550a21 | I got letters saying, I detest everything about you, and I got letters saying, You have written my bible. Imagine if I'd tried to create a definition of myself based on any of these reactions. I didn't try. And | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ac32fe6 | He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, and as a lifelong commitment to the search for grace and transcendence. I | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 35567fa | Nunca discutas sobre Dios. Lo mejor es decir 'Estoy de acuerdo contigo'. Entonces vas a tu casa y rezas lo que tu quieres. Esta es mi idea para que las personas esten en paz con la religion. | humor religion | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a229bc0 | La gente cree que un alma gemela es la pieza de puzzle que mejor encaja contigo, y eso es lo que todo el mundo quiere. Pero una verdadera alma gemela es probablemente la persona que te hace ver todo lo que te esta frenando, la persona que te da un toque de atencion para que puedas cambiar tu vida. Una verdadera alma gemela es probablemente la persona mas importante que conoceras, porque derrumbara tus muros y te despertara de un bofeton. ?P.. | soulmate | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| df7e2a0 | Take an honest inventory of the education you already have--the years you have lived, the trials you have endured, the skills you have learned along the way. If you are a young person, open your eyes wide and let the world educate you to the fullest extent. And feel free to start sharing your perspective through creativity, even if you're just a kid. If you are young, you see things differently than I do, and I want to know how you see thin.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e9f4f53 | The arrogance of belonging is not about egotism or self-absorption. In a strange way, it's the opposite; it is a divine force that will actually take you out of yourself and allow you to engage more fully with life. Because often what keeps you from creative living is your self-absorption (your self-doubt, your self-disgust, your self-judgment, your crushing sense of self-protection). The arrogance of belonging pulls you out of the darkest .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3435246 | Pliny the Elder wrote once: "If anyone will consider the abundance of Rome's public supply of water, for baths, cisterns, ditches, houses, gardens, villas; and take into account the distance over which it travels, the arches reared, the mountains pierced, the valleys spanned--he will admit that there never was anything more marvelous in the whole world." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 01cbe42 | but truly there were times when the sadness of this world was scarcely to be endured, and the violence of love, Alma thought, was sometimes the most pitiless violence of all. Her | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bff44c2 | Como consiguen los supervivientes de una relacion soportar el sufrimiento de un asunto inacabado? Desde | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2eba13d | I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving. | love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c176a54 | Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine. | experience personally-encounter spirituality | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 6c4419e | Avea obiceiurile, tabieturile si raspunderile ei. Avea demnitatea ei. Intr-adevar, era cam ca o carte care se deschisese la aceeasi pagina in fiecare zi, timp de treizeci de ani in sir - dar nu fusese o pagina prea rea. Se simtise vesela. Multumita. Oricine ar fi spus ca avusese o viata buna. Acum nu s-ar mai fi putut intoarce la viata aceea cu nici un chip. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 565b027 | I am going to spend as much time as I can creating delightful things out of my existence, because that's what brings me awake and that's what brings me alive. I | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 07a480a | try saying this: "I enjoy my creativity." And when you say it, be sure to actually mean it. For one thing, it will freak people out. I believe that enjoying your work with all your heart is the only truly subversive position left to take as a creative person these days. It's such a gangster move, because hardly anybody ever dares to speak of creative enjoyment aloud, for fear of not being taken seriously as an artist. So say it. Be the weir.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 57455fa | what to do about it. Let me list for you some of the many ways in which you might be afraid to live a more creative life: You're afraid you have no talent. You're afraid you'll be rejected or criticized or ridiculed or misunderstood or--worst of all--ignored. You're afraid there's no market for your creativity, and therefore no point in pursuing it. You're afraid somebody else already did it better. You're afraid everybody else already did .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 57bb0c1 | my entire life has been shaped by an early decision to reject the cult of artistic martyrdom, and instead to place my trust in the crazy notion that my work loves me as much as I love it--that it wants to play with me as much as I want to play with it--and that this source of love and play is boundless. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 78909fc | Yoga, in Sanskrit, can be translated as "union". It originally comes from the root word yuj, which means "to yoke", to attach yourself to a task at hand with ox-like discipline. And the task at hand in yoga is to find union - between mind and body, between the individual and her god, between our thoughts and the source of our thoughts, between teacher and student, and even between ourselves and our sometimes hard-to-bend neighbors." | Elizabeth Gilbert |