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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | religion humor | 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. | spirituality personally-encounter experience | 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 | ||
| 054991b | A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? I was a bird who could dive and Felipe was a fish who can fly, we basically lived in midair. Diving and flying across oceans and continents in order to be together. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ecc3f4b | Cu cat este mai mare criza, cu atat mai rapida este evolutia. | origin-of-species | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| c285b04 | it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2e66313 | I think people have children for all manner of reasons- sometimes out of a pure desire to nurture and witness life, sometimes out of an absence of choice, sometimes in order to hold on to a partner or create an heir, sometimes without thinking about it in any particular way. Not all the reasons to have children are the same, and not all of them are necessarily unselfish. Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though... | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6952dd2 | It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d2cdb2e | Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist lesbian nun who has never been married and never intends to get married, the politest possible answer is still: "Not yet." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1831edc | How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they can always lean on during a metaphysical crisis, or a moment of doubt about their relevancy- If I have done nothing else in this life, then at least I have raised my children well. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7eb5eb2 | Thank heavens we have an earth! Otherwise, where would we sit?" Retta" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 4cd1076 | Eventually I may have to become a more solid citizen again, I'm aware of this. But not yet.... Please. Not just yet. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b57ea1f | To have issues with boundaries, one must have boundaries in the first place, right? 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. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protec.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a625cf8 | And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 76935a8 | As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift- or curse, perhaps- of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c0f50a5 | Creativity is a gift to the creator not just a gift to the audience. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 26ce617 | Only recently, the word scientist had been coined, by the polymath William Whewell. Many scholars had objected to this blunt new term, as it sounded so sinisterly similar to that awful word atheist; why not simply continue to call themselves natural philosophers? Was that designation not more godly, more pure? But divisions were being drawn now between the realm of nature and the realm of philosophy. Ministers who doubled as botanists or ge.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f41c580 | I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all these acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end. 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 thro.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b37775f | there's only one part of a man's anatomy that any potential mate should worry about measuring, and that is the length of his vasopressin receptor gene. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| dccf4b2 | I met an old lady once, almost one hundred years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history: How much do you love me? and Who's in charge?" Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief and suffering." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c71b97c | Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow--for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up." So" | Elizabeth Gilbert |