Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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I know a woman who gets tattoos all the time. She acquires new tattoos the way I might buy a new pair of earrings. She w — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as h — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations? — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
So whenever that brittle voice of dissatisfaction emerges within me, I can say "Ah, my ego! There you are, old friend!" — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
[C]reative living is a path for the brave. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I simply vowed to the universe that I would write forever, regardless of the result. I promised that I would try to be b — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly de — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate exi — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you! — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
And since creativity is still the most effective way for me to access wonder, I choose it. I choose to block out all the — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
There’s plenty of room in this vehicle for all of us, so make yourself at home, but understand this: Creativity and I ar — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain — Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear