Quotes About Inspiration

if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: I want a spiritual teacher.

The women I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to discover those jewels––that's creative living.

A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.

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.

Because the truth is, I believe that creativity is a force of enchantment—not entirely human in its origins.

Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is, however, something to be dealt with.

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening

Elizabeth Gilbert

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

I only meant that there was a place within my imagination so fathomlessly deep that the light of the real world could never touch it.

When I refer to creative living, I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.

If you can't do what you long to do, go do something else. Go walk the dog, go pick up every bit of trash on the street outside your home, go walk the dog again, go bake a peach cobbler, go paint some pebbles with brightly colored nail polish and put them in a pile. You might think it's procrastiantion, but - with the right intention - it isn't; it's motion. And any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion.

One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace

I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.