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Book cover for Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

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(“We must risk delight,” he wrote. “We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”)

I love parentheticals.

Jessica’s Quotes

“You never do any good until you get into some trouble.”
― Arthur Miller

tags: activism, inspiration

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“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
― Carrie Fisher

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“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

tags: existence

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“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

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“Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is--whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze--perfect.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

tags: hiking, mountaineering, nature, outdoors, wilderness

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