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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a49a78f | everyone | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ce80a15 | He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2cb4432 | Y si despues de pasar por una epoca tan tenebrosa ves que queda un atisbo de felicidad en tu interior, no te queda mas remedio que agarrar esa felicidad aunque acabes con la cara entera manchada de barro. | life-experience | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 61bfab0 | Our whole business therefore in this life," wrote Saint Augustine, rather Yogically, "is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a067df4 | Where had Mrs. Borkowski's should gone? (p. 139) | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| b96e2cb | Groceries, baby, listen to your friend Richard. You go set your lily-white ass down in that meditation cave every day for the next three months and I promise you this--you're gonna start seeing some stuff that's so damn beautiful it'll make you wanna throw rocks at the Taj Mahal. | inspirational | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| e9e0807 | My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed.I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress--what would be the point? He'd already been watching me fall apart for months now, watching me behave like a madwoman (we both agreed on that word), and I only exhausted him. We both knew there was something wrong with me, and he'd been losing patience with it. We'd been fighting and crying, and .. | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 7137ca9 | The hunt to uncover those jewels--that's creative living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 03a81a8 | One must bear what cannot be escaped | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 45a0aba | And while the paths and outcomes of creative living will vary wildly from person to person, I can guarantee you this: 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.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9d187a5 | that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 56fb96e | As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-'n'-Stalin picture, but also on the smallest personal level. Even in my own life, I can see exactly where my episodes of unhappiness have brought suffering or distress or (at the very least) inconvenience to those around me. The search .. | M.G. Keefe | ||
| 52fc7b8 | White Acre was not, in fact, a very large place. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 656d625 | a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2690675 | The emergency that always gets you in the end is the one you didn't prepare for. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 467e8c2 | Maybe because they didn't worry too much about me, I didn't worry too much about me, either. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e1f6422 | Bravery means doing something scary. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 719f869 | I believe that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses, but also by ideas. Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, but capable of interacting with us--albeit strangely. Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. And the only way an idea can be made.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 11648d0 | If you dare to create something and put it out there, after all, then it may accidentally stir up a response. That's the natural order of life: the eternal inhale and exhale of action and reaction. But you are definitely not in charge of the reaction--even when that reaction is flat-out bizarre. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 13f8197 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 07bc73d | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 32ff2f8 | Tiramisu for desert. | pleasure tiramisu | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 57dd2bf | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| af0b4c0 | I realized that, as a songwriter, the only thing I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people's minds. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a3a7eb2 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 32556a3 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dd74eb8 | 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.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 13cb8c5 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c96ac87 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9a531d1 | Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0b1bb12 | Any place that one could not leave was not large--particularly if one was a naturalist! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a429f12 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 61bec2d | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a7d9045 | guinapo | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| eb35d89 | 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 .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| beb9785 | 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.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 96821e3 | 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." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 20bedf4 | Nunca olvides que una vez, en el momento mas inesperado, te viste a ti misma como una amiga. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1fe8815 | If I had remained invisible, the truth would have stayed hidden. I couldn't allow that. | Anonymity | ||
| 832b814 | I have many names, and none of them matter. | Anonymity | ||
| 461acad | 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. | home self-love | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c013859 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dbd580e | 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 | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 85c645c | 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.. | Elizabeth Gilbert |