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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 39f192b | But we work with what we know in this life, | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c08e010 | It matters./It doesn't matter. Build space in your head for this paradox. Build as much space for it as you can. Build even more space. You will need it. And then go deep within that space--as far in as you can possibly go--and make absolutely whatever you want to make. It's | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b6fb41b | The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go. With all your heart, ask for grace, and let go. Watch the heat of the day pass into the cool night. Let go. When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c664162 | His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6743b0b | 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 | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6fa2904 | Creative entitlement doesn't mean behaving like a princess, or acting as though the world owes you anything whatsoever. No, 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 | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| df0a5be | I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 91bec14 | 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 depths of self-hatred--not by saying "I am the greatest!" but merely by saying "I am here!" I" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 808a4f1 | Hearing this announcement, your soul will mobilize accordingly. It will mobilize ecstatically, in fact, because this is what your soul was born for. (Trust me, your soul has been waiting for you to wake up to your own existence for years.) But | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5af6133 | How you manage yourself between those bright moments, when things aren't going so great, is a measure of how devoted you are to your vocation, and how equipped you are for the weird demands of creative living. Holding yourself together through all the phases of creation is where the real work lies. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a09dcbb | And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5e562aa | All of which is to say: You do not need a permission slip from the principal's office to live a creative life. Or if you do worry that you need a permission slip--THERE, I just gave it to you. I | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1b1ca6a | I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life-so why did I feel like none of it resembled me? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 12a9f97 | fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun. This | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ce58377 | There's a reason the call God a ~ because God is right , right In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| fb46c4c | There's a reason they call God a ~ because God is right , right In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 54df6a0 | Attraversiamo. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 95803a9 | why are you so sure that your micromanagement of every moment in this whole world is so essential | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1a1ad81 | Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship--a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you have no control over; half of it is absolutely in your hands, and your actions will show measurable consequence. Man is neither entirely a puppet of the gods, nor is he entirely the captain of his own destiny; he's a little of both. We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5dba04f | Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 90ad73c | The earliest evidence of recognizable human art is forty thousand years old. The earliest evidence of human agriculture, by contrast, is only ten thousand years old. Which means that somewhere in our collective evolutionary story, we decided it was way more important to make attractive, superfluous items than it was to learn how to regularly feed ourselves. The | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0396f69 | Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 09b8ea6 | Even smile in your liver. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 217401c | for all my days, as a raft against the winds and sorrows of the world. Whosoever wishes to board my raft may do so. I do not force anyone to come aboard, you see, but how can I abandon the raft? My good | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9ec0525 | your fear will always show up--especially when you're trying to be inventive or innovative. Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome. Your fear--programmed by evolution to be hypervigilant and insanely overprotective--will always assume that any uncertain outcome is destined to end in a bloody, horrible death. Basically, you.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| d9526b3 | Zen masters always say that you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f99b054 | For some reason, I feel the same way about you that I felt about my kids when they were small - that it wasn't their job to love me, it was my job to love them. You can decide to feel however you want to, but I love you and I will always love you. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 87f5dc7 | Creative living is a path for the brave. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c9990c0 | 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. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 5e06d71 | there's no way we can ever hope to understand ourselves if we don't at least marginally understand our home. That is the understanding we need to put our lives in some bigger metaphysical context. Instead, Eustace sees a chilling sight- a citizenry so removed from the rhythm of nature that we march through our lives as mere sleepwalkers, blinded, deafened, and senseless. Robotically existing in sterilized surroundings that numb the mind, we.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| ebb74b5 | This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat their own donations to the gods, since the offering is more metaphysical than literal. The way the Balinese see it, God takes what belongs to God - the gesture - while man takes what belongs to man - the food itself. | metaphysical offering | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 603cb56 | I look at the Augusteum, and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true en.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8b69f4f | you clear out all that space in your mind that you're using right now to obsess about this guy, you'll have a vacuum there, an open spot--a doorway. And guess what the universe will do with that doorway? It will rush in--God will rush in--and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed. So stop using David to block that door. Let it go. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0a1dcd8 | ago that if I want creativity in my life--and I do--then I will have to make space for fear, too. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 03d4068 | Listen, you're a powerful woman and you're used to getting what you want out of life, and you didn't get what you wanted in your last few relationships and it's got you all jammed up. Your | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 233f2fb | A different way is to cooperate fully, humbly, and joyfully with inspiration. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8a58a4e | You can receive your ideas with respect and curiosity, not with drama or dread. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6b0cd55 | There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey and the Book of Common Prayer." For some people, that's truly enough. For others, more drastic measures are required." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 40bb671 | Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7f10382 | You didn't show up ready enough, or fast enough, or openly enough for the idea to take hold within you and complete itself. Therefore, the idea went hunting for a new partner, and somebody else got to make the thing. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8531f9b | It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us. Because "they" (the powers-that-be) have never been entirely able to stop "us" (two people" from connecting our lives together and creating a secret world of our own. And so "they" eventually have no choice but to legally permit "us' to marry, in some shape or .. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 34bfc73 | Everything is so goddamn scary. Defending | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 7b4c662 | I noticed that my fear never changed, never delighted, never offered a surprise twist or an unexpected ending. My fear was a song with only one note--only one word, actually--and that word was "STOP!" My fear never had anything more interesting or subtle to offer than that one emphatic word, repeated at full volume on an endless loop: "STOP, STOP, STOP, STOP!" Which" | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 98db83b | Take seriously. Make punctual. Be cool and easy. Remember--everything you do, you do for God. And everything God does, He do for you. | Elizabeth Gilbert |