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Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Artists category:
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)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Beauty category:
You were given life; it is your duty... to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Beginning category:
Remember that you're nothing but a beginner - even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Belief category:
If you're going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful? (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Belief category:
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. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Books category:
Dear me, how I love a library. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Choices category:
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Complaining category:
There are so many good reasons to stop complaining if you want to live a more creative life. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Courage category:
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. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Creativity category:
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. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Creativity category:
Because the truth is, I believe that creativity is a force of enchantment - not entirely human in its origins. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Culture category:
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)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Curiosity category:
A creative life is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Desire category:
- Eat, Pray, Love...
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Education category:
Most of all, there is this truth: No matter how great your teachers may be, and no matter how esteemed your academy's reputation, eventually you will have to do the work by yourself. Eventually, the teachers won't be there anymore. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Effort category:
It is only through a human's efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and into the realm of the actual. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Ego category:
Your ego is a wonderful servant, but it's a terrible master - because the only thing your ego ever wants is reward, reward, and more reward. And since there's never enough reward to satisfy, your ego will always be disappointed. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Emotion category:
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Enthusiasm category:
Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Expectation category:
Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Failure category:
Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Faith category:
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Fear category:
Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do? (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Fear category:
Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Friendship category:
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Frustration category:
Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Growth category:
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)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Guidance category:
My soul, when I tend to it, is a far more expansive and fascinating source of guidance than my ego will ever be, because my soul desires only one thing: wonder. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Happiness category:
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. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Hope category:
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Humanity category:
Creativity is the hallmark of our species. We have the senses for it; we have the curiosity for it; we have the opposable thumbs for it; we have the rhythm for it; we have the language and the excitement and the innate connection to divinity for it. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Ideas category:
I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Ideas category:
Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Importance category:
My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely). (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Inspiration category:
Inspiration is trying to send me messages in every form it can - through dreams, through portents, through clues, through coincidences, through deja vu, through kismet, through surprising waves of attraction and reaction, through the chills that run up my arms... through stubborn ideas that keep me awake all night long... (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Inspiration category:
Inspiration is allowed to do whatever it wants to, in fact, and it is never obliged to justify its motives to any of us. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Journey category:
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Joy category:
Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Life category:
When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Life category:
You can live a long life, making and doing really cool things the entire time. You might earn a living with your pursuits or you might not, but you can recognize that this is not really the point. And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Limitations category:
As the saying goes, 'Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.' (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Loneliness category:
-said to herself...
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. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Love category:
When it's for love, you will always do it anyhow. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Magic category:
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful 'magic skills' that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Mirrors category:
-Eat, Pray, Love...
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Money category:
But to yell at your creativity, saying, 'You must earn money for me!' is sort of like yelling at a cat; it has no idea what you're talking about, and all you're doing is scaring it away, because you're making really loud noises and your face looks weird when you do that. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Originality category:
Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Perfection category:
Perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Perseverance category:
Whatever it is you are pursuing, whatever it is you are seeking, whatever it is you are creating, be careful not to quit too soon. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Persistence category:
Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Possibilities category:
The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust - and those elements are universally accessible. Which does not mean that creative living is always easy; it merely means that creative living is always possible. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Practice category:
It's a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Prayer category:
Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Religion category:
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Responsibility category:
Allowing one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Revelation category:
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)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Success category:
-Eat, Pray, Love...
I should just put it bluntly... it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought!...anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right? (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Universe category:
The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Wonder category:
As long as I'm still moving in that direction - toward wonder - then I know I will always be fine in my soul, which is where it counts. And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Worth category:
You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Elizabeth Gilbert - From the Writing category:
I had never asked writing to be easy; I had only asked writing to be interesting. And it was always interesting to me. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
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