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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 65e4103 | This supreme lesson of karma (and also of Western psychology, by the way)-take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you screw everything up the next time. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ebbf616 | Human artistic expression is blessedly, refreshingly nonessential. That's exactly why I love it so much. [...] The fact that I get to spend my life making objectively useless things means [...] I am not exclusively chained to the grind of mere survival. It means we still have space left in our civilization for the luxuries of imagination and beauty and emotion - and even total frivilousness. Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because .. | be-creative create creativity dare-to-be-pointless frivilous frivilousness luxury make-art making-art | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 00032e2 | a fight in the courts would be infinitely more expensive and time-consuming, not to mention soul-corroding. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a75feac | My truth is not a condemnation of yours. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| db1e43f | Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes. [Author was quoting Jack Gilbert, which he reportedly had said to a student] | writing | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 33e93c8 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2b5182e | I had chosen a devotional path and I was being true to it. If someday I got lucky enough to be paid for my work, that would be great, but in the meantime, money could always come from other places. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ad1b2fc | Dearest Fear: Creativity and I are about to go on a road trip together. I understand you'll be joining us, because you always do. I acknowledge that you believe you have an important job to do in my life, and that you take your job seriously. Apparently your job is to induce complete panic whenever I'm about to do anything interesting--and, may I say, you are superb at your job. So by all means, keep doing your job, if you feel you must. Bu.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6532159 | Quit your complaining. It's not the world's fault that you wanted to be an artist. It's not the world's job to enjoy the films you make, and it's certainly not the world's obligation to pay for your dreams. Nobody wants to hear it. Steal a camera if you must, but stop whining and get back to work. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5a92a5f | He was lost in the cult of artistic suffering, but he called that suffering by another name: dedication. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2f75972 | It doesn't matter in the least. 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, remember what W. C. Fields had to say .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7585ec1 | Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one... but it ain't especially smart. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b890585 | Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying, "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5940dbd | 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 weirdo who dares to enjoy. Best of all, though, by saying that you delight in your work, you will draw inspiration near. Inspiration will.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 753b081 | Marriage survives... because it evolves. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d665d04 | Men and women who have lived together over long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. | marriage marriage-advice | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 01d3437 | We all need something that helps us to forget ourselves for a while | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4b88934 | Her prose was a hammer; Darwin's was a psalm. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b52d949 | People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 273df18 | I think it's a might act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, and that the world does not automatically owe them any reward, and that they are not as weak and hobbled as they may believe. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 14c0f16 |
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Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3251a62 | When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. 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."-- Elizabeth Gilbert" -- | Catherine Chea | ||
| 6ad59c1 | I say this with all confidence, because I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure. I believe this is one of the oldest and most generous tricks the universe plays on us human beings, both for its own amusement and for ours: The 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 hun.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 338f789 | I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 06bca94 | Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one. Americans spend billions to keep themselves amused with everything from porn to theme parks to wars, but that's not exactly the same thing as quiet enjoyment. Americans work harder and longer and more stressful hours than anyone in the world today. But as Luca Spaghetti po.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 264992e | We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. Without bravery, their lives would remain small-far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be. Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you? I believe this is one of the oldest and most generous tricks the universe plays on us human beings, both of its own amusement and for ours. The universe buries stran.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3980ba4 | Most individuals have never had enough time, and they've never had enough resources, and they've never had enough support or patronage or reward . . . and yet still they persist in creating. They persist because they care. They persist because they are called to be makers, by any means necessary. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 860751c | But if your calling is to make things, then you still have to make things in order to live out your highest creative potential--and also in order to remain sane. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5202d77 | 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 it better. You're afraid somebody will steal your ideas, so it's safer to keep them hidden forever in the dark. You're afr.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a3cd0e6 | Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck, "if I understand you correctly, it seems you have identified the different textures of human hair as evidence that Negroes, Indians, Orientals, and the white man are all members of different species. But I cannot help but wonder at your supposition. On this very estate, sir, we raise several varieties of sheep. Perhaps you noticed them as yo.. | prudence-whittaker same sheep species | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a49cb79 | But why must everything always have a practical application? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a7b511c | But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 368fa62 | Exactly because the human heart is such a mystery, love renders all our plans and all our intentions a great big gamble. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a31ff36 | You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can't learn to master your thinking, you're in deep trouble forever. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 244684d | People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of that.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always goin.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 40baf7e | Everything I've ever written has brought me into being. Every project has matured me in a different way. I am who I am today precisely because of what I have made, and what it has made me into. Creativity has hand raised me and forged me into an adult. | creativity writting | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| f105b2e | But Glass, in her research, discovered that if you dig a little deeper into people's infidelities, you can almost always see how the affair started long before the first stolen kiss. Most affairs begin, Glass wrote, when a husband or wife makes a new friend, and an apparently harmless intimacy is born. You don't sense the danger as it's happening, because what's wrong with friendship? Why can't we have friends of the opposite sex--or of the.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 3eaec5f | She had envisaged them traveling to Boston together, or perhaps even beyond--as far away as the Alps, climbing over boulders to hunt for pasqueflowers and rock-jasmine. He would say to her, "What do you make of this specimen?" and she would say, "It is fine and rare." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| afdf112 | Polly was the same age as Alma, but daintier and startlingly beautiful. She looked like a perfect figurine carved out of fine French soap, into which someone had inlaid a pair of glittering peacock-blue eyes. But it was the tiny pink pillow of her mouth that made this girl more than simply pretty; it made her an unsettling little voluptuary, a Bathsheba wrought in miniature. | blonde-hair blue-eyes polly prudence-whittaker | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| bfec73e | Vladimir Kush , Shell Bronze , Lovers Entwined (painting) "Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to make every sacrifice for her? Because it is his immortal part that longs for her; it is always the mortal part alone that longs for everything else. That eager and even ardent longing, directed to a particular woman, is therefore an immediate pledge of the indestructibility of t.. | philosophy | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| c136d06 | Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to make every sacrifice for her? Because it is his immortal part that longs for her; it is always the mortal part alone that longs for everything else. That eager and even ardent longing, directed to a particular woman, is therefore an immediate pledge of the indestructibility of the kernel of our true nature... | philosophy | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 16dbb1f | Think For Yourself, Question Authority" - Timothy Leary | Anonymous (group) | ||
| 02b413d | Simptomele sunt mesagerii unui sens si vor disparea doar atunci cand mesajul lor este inteles. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 4487692 | Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one. Your take is what counts. | Jess Walter |