Elizabeth Gilbert quotes - page 11

Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, "to walk against the wind for pleasure. View quote
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Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them. View quote
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Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. View quote
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Basically, your fear is like a mall cop who thinks he's a Navy SEAL: He hasn't slept in days, he's all hopped up on Red Bull, and he's liable to shoot at his own shadow in an absurd effort to keep everyone "safe. View quote
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You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work. View quote
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Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it. View quote
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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. View quote
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perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat. View quote
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if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something. View quote
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living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. (Elizabeth Gilbert)
What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant? View quote
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All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency. View quote
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It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage. View quote
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It might have been done before, but it hasn't been done by you! View quote
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A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think. View quote
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Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself. View quote
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You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters. View quote
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But I love him." "So love him." "But I miss him." "So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it. View quote
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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. View quote
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From the center of my life, there came a great fountain... (Elizabeth Gilbert)
I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other. View quote
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. View quote
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We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.' View quote
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Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. View quote
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