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“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for—in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”
― Ellen Goodman

tags: humor, life, materialism, society

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“Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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“It ain’t what they call you; it’s what you answer to.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear

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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: attributed-no-source, courage

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“I think perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat, pretending to be elegant when actually it's just terrified. Because underneath that shiny veneer, perfectionism is nothing more that a deep existential angst the says, again and again, 'I am not good enough and I will never be good enough.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

tags: fear, perfectionism

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