Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic Quotes

#1. Measure your worth by the dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures." Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

Joanna Penn

#2. I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

Sia Furler

#3. She was tall, and dressed in the kind of casual clothes that will let you kill someone easily and won't draw attention from passersby. Khakis are good for this sort of thing.

Daniel O'Malley

#4. Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. The notion that animals are not self-aware is based on nothing more than a stipulation that the only way to be self-aware is to have the self-awareness of a normal adult human. That is certainly one way to be self-aware. It's not the only way.

Gary L. Francione

#6. Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

Homer

#7. I'm going to be straight with you... because this dance is killing me. Don't imagine for a second that I don't want you." - Ty, Chapter Five

Ann Aguirre

#8. YOU are important. You are special. You are loved. GOD has a plan for your life! Find out what it is and you'll experience a depth of fulfillment you never thought possible.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#9. Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

Chris Rock

#10. Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Berthold Auerbach

#11. The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

Barack Obama

#12. Anger is more productive than fear.

Sharyn McCrumb

#13. She gave up combing her hair, which the salt air had reduced to a kind of scrim of brown hessian, and, lying down, proceeded to keep her fingernails short in the way Kate admired least. Then she overslept.

Dorothy Dunnett

#14. The right use of food can end hunger.

Jose Andres

#15. When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.

Keyshawn Johnson

#16. Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!

Gloria Gaynor

#17. It's what we wrestle with every single day. The intersection of comfort, danger, and safety. The balancing act between vulnerability and shame. The opportunity (or the risk) to do art. The willingness to take responsibility for caring enough to make a difference and to have a point of view.

Seth Godin

#18. The often surprising results of that hunt - that's what I call Big Magic.

Elizabeth Gilbert