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Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
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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.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“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.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.”
― Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
― Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
“It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Carmen’s 2025 Year in Books
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