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“When artists are burdened with the label of “genius,” I think they lose the ability to take themselves lightly, or to create freely.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.”
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
“It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“your life is short and rare and amazing and miraculous, and you want to do really interesting things and make really interesting things while you’re still here.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“the women and men I interviewed who had the strongest sense of true belonging stayed zoomed in. They didn’t ignore what was happening in the world, nor did they stop advocating for their beliefs. They did, however, commit to assessing their lives and forming their opinions of people based on their actual, in-person experiences. They worked against the trap that most of us have fallen into: I can hate large groups of strangers, because the members of those groups who I happen to know and like are the rare exceptions.”
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
― Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
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