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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    Let people have their opinions. More than that--let people love 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.
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  2. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things."
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  3. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    I think it's a mighty 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.
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  4. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is, however, something to be dealt with.
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  5. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable {food, shelter, medicine, rule of law, social order, community and familial responsibility, sickness, loss, death, taxes, etc.}. Pure creativity is something better than a necessity; it's a gift. It's the frosting. Our creativity is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe.
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  6. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.
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  7. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    But inspiration is still sitting there right beside me, and it is trying. Inspiration is trying to send me messages in every form it can-through dreams, through portents, through clues, through coincidences, through déjà vu, through kismet, through surprising waves of attraction and reaction, through the chills that run up my arms, through the hair that stands up on the back of my neck, through the pleasure of something new and surprising, through stubborn ideas that keep me awake all night long . . . whatever works. Inspiration is always trying to work with me.
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  8. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    Creativity is a path for the brave, yes, but it is not a path for the fearless, and it's important to recognize the distinction. Bravery means doing something scary. Fearlessness means not even understanding what the word scary means. If your goal in life is to become fearless, then I believe you're already on the wrong path, because the only truly fearless people I've ever met were straight-up sociopaths and a few exceptionally reckless three-year-olds-and those aren't good role models for anyone.
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  9. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    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.
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  10. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass."
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  11. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    It ain't what they call you; it's what you answer to.
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  12. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    ideas are alive, that ideas do seek the most available human collaborator, that ideas do have a conscious will, that ideas do move from soul to soul, that ideas will always try to seek the swiftest and most efficient conduit to the earth {just as lightning does}.
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