Dare To Be The Person Who Follows Their Inspiration Wherever It May Lead Them

“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, amazon.com

“You own reasons to make are reason enough. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“What is creativity? 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, amazon.com

“Through the mere act of creating something—anything—you might inadvertently produce work that is magnificent, eternal, or important.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“This is a world, not a womb. You can look after yourself in this world while looking after your creativity at the same time — just as people have done for ages.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“There’s no dishonor in having a job. What is dishonorable is scaring away your creativity by demanding that it pay for your entire existence.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“Most of their lives, most people just walk around saying: No, No, No, No, No. Then again, someday you just might say yes.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“Let inspiration lead you wherever it wants. For most of history people just made things, and they didn’t make such a big freaking deal out of it.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“If you don’t have the courage, let’s try to get you some. Because creative living is a path for the brave. We all know this. And we all know that when courage dies, creativity dies with it.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“Ideas of every kind are constantly galloping toward us, constantly pass through us, constantly trying to get our attention.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“Don’t abandon your creativity the moment things top being easy or rewarding — because that’s the moment when interesting beings.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we’re so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don’t give a damn what anyone thinks of us. But you won’t be complete…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“Perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“If you’re alive, you’re a creative person.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“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. 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, amazon.com

“It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com