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| 973db05 | Let people have their opinions. More than that--let people be in love with their opinions, just as you and I are in love with ours. 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. Lastly, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4a9e86f | What are you passionate enough about that you can endure the most disagreeable aspects of the work? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3822d2d | 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." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2044e28 | This is how you must do it, people. I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. But you must stubbornly walk into that room, regardless, and you must hold your head high. You made it; you get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best wit.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f6f8d45 | Women are the one's holding themselves back from participating in the first place - holding back their ideas, holding back their contributions, holding back their leadership and their talents. Too many women still believe that they're not allowed to put themselves forward at all until both they are their work are perfect and beyond criticism. Meanwhile putting forth work that is far from perfect rarely stops men from participating in the gl.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8b26a4b | For a group of nationalist intellectuals much later in history to have sat down and decided that Dante's Italian would now be the official language of Italy would be very much as if a group of Oxford dons had sat down one day in the early nineteenth century and decided that--from this point forward--everybody in England was going to speak pure Shakespeare. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 795c6cc | They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me--Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c69165c | At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning. | girls learning | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 0e46ad3 | Women are the one's holding themselves back from participating in the first place - holding back their ideas, holding back their contributions, holding back their leadership and their talents. Too many women still believe that they're not allowed to put themselves forward at all until both they and their work are perfect and beyond criticism. Meanwhile putting forth work that is far from perfect rarely stops men from participating in the gl.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3bdc8ef | I got a mother who wasn't having it. She wasn't having a minute of my drama, which is probably the luckiest thing that ever happened to me... she was not about to raise a little candy ass. Not on her watch. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| eb17593 | I don't know what I think until I write about it (Joan Didion). | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6b7ec04 | As Joan Didion said, "I don't know what I think until I write about it." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1d87587 | como dice Garcia Marquez, se parece al amor, pero sin los problemas del amor. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| e52b5e5 | In order to live this way - free to create, free to explore - you must possess a fierce sense of personal entitlement. Creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that - merely by being here - you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own. The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement 'the arrogance of belonging,' and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c718960 | I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies--not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it's the other way around. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 85c7d35 | This is what I would like to hold on to. Please help me memorize this feeling of contentment and help me always support it. I'm putting this happiness in a bank somewhere, not merely FDIC protected but guarded by my four spirit brothers, held there as insurance against future trials in life. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b1a5670 | In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 400264d | There's a reason they call God a presence--because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3684d4e | I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f7f98a9 | I don't want to be married anymore. I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself to me. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6dd80a9 | One wouldn't have noticed it before, but now it was obvious. It was as though Ambrose had opened an inlet to something previously invisible, and Alma could finally see a truth she would otherwise have been blind to forever. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c7c0c90 | The often surprising results of that hunt--that's what I call Big Magic. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7c5589f | I want to have a lasting experience of God," I told him. "Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I lose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 438a0f6 | Namely, that I don't feel comfortable petitioning for specific things from God, because that feels to me like a kind of weakness of faith. I don't like asking, "Will you change this or that thing in my life that's difficult for me?" Because--who knows?--God might want me to be facing that particular challenge for a reason. Instead, I feel more comfortable praying for the courage to face whatever occurs in my life with equanimity, no matter .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 86382a8 | Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done. Most of it is not like fairy dust in the least. | writing writing-life | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 3e2ef03 | No more verbal tap-dancing for pennies of affirmation. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7eabe33 | My friend Susan suggested that perhaps I should establish a not-for-profit relief organization called "Divorcees Without Borders." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 76c2650 | Alma wrote in depth about laurel, mimosa, and verbena. She wrote about grapes and camellias, about the myrtle orange, about the cosseting of figs, She published under the name "A. Whittaker." Neither she nor George Hawkes believed that it would much benefit Alma to announce herself in print as female. In the scientific world of the day, there was still a strict division between "botany" (the study of plants by men) and "polite botany" was o.. | articles authoress botanists botany journal-entries letters | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| af6df0a | 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 | ||
| ecb2ffc | Bel far niente | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 54a1cae | But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time--everything. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8afc907 | But for me, to experience life through mere reason is to feel about in the dark for God's face while wearing heavy gloves. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b8d20e4 | You are an idealist, which means that you are destined to be disappointed, and perhaps even wounded. You seek a gospel of benevolence and miracle, which leaves no room for the sorrows of existence. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6c73ce7 | Hadn't I wanted this? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life. So why didn't I see myself in any of it? The only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't wanna hurt anybody, I wanted to slip quietly out the back door and not stop running until I reached Greenland. Instead I made a decision: to pray.. you know...like... to God. And it was such a foreign concept to me that I swear I almost bega.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b23001c | We hold these truths to be self-evident, | Anonymous (group) | ||
| 9b53e2d | such thinking assumes there is a "top"--and that reaching that top (and staying there) is the only motive one has to create. Such thinking assumes that the mysteries of inspiration operate on the same scale that we do--on a limited human scale of success and failure, of winning and losing, of comparison and competition, of commerce and reputation, of units sold and influence wielded. Such thinking assumes that you must be constantly victori.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3723861 | El amor desesperado consiste en inventarse un personaje, exigir a la persona amada que lo represente y hundirnos en la miseria cuando se niega a convertirse en ese ser de ficcion. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fa2fc37 | Creative Living, Defined So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? Look, I don't know what's hidden within you. I have no way of knowing such a thing. You yourself may barely know, although I suspect you've caught glimpses. I don't know your capacities, your aspirations, your longings, your secret talents. But surely som.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a9b1474 | I climbed the stairs to my apartment, lay down in my new bed and turned off the light. I waited to start crying or worrying, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 44f914f | What have I not yet learned about the futility of worry? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a2965c4 | Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2f23e82 | The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d3f9806 | To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 65f8734 | that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-'n'- | Elizabeth Gilbert |