The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Create something beautiful and let it go.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Every day is a blank canvas to use our free will to create something beautiful for our Creator.
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KATE MCGAHAN What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w...
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VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attai...
LANA M. H. WILDER What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create someth...
STEVE MARABOLI We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose...
CLIVE BELL all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates...
PLATO Love is like a rose. It blossoms into something beautiful and the. It dies.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER The Universe said, ‘Let me show
your soul something beautiful.
ABERJHANI We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is lik...
CLIVE BELL That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn awa...
ANTHONY DOERR You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT My dream is to create something so beautiful that it encourages people to present the best version o...
ROSS CALIGIURI If you are longing for something more than the hit-and-run relationship cycle, something beautiful a...
ERIC LUDY It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interd...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be adm...
TERRY PRATCHETT Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.
CEDRIC NYE God created all things. It's men who decide which ones are mistakes.
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PLATO I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different w...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
DEMOCRITUS It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new
DEMOCRITUS Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its...
JOYCE RACHELLE I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it ...
DARON MALAKIAN Truth is like a flower, if you tend to it and leave it in the sunshine, it will blossom into somethi...
ANGIE KARAN Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
C.S. LEWIS Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
I. M. PEI There is something beautiful about watching two people lovingly act silly together; behaving as thou...
STEVE MARABOLI Life is beautiful but people are crazy.
CHARLES OSGOOD Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
BRIT MARLING A beautiful painting can turn a moment of time into a timeless vision.
JIM GENOVESE Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if on...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And ...
HANNAH HARRINGTON We could turn what has been a success and the Yellowstone grizzly is a success into something with a...
LOUISA WILLCOX If you can find something that is a huge challenge for the dancers and also you know it is something...
VICTORIA MORGAN Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in...
LOUIS L'AMOUR There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.
BRYANT MCGILL You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and thin...
MONTEL WILLIAMS Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exac...
KARL LAGERFELD What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very differe...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
BRANDON BOYD The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's n...
JOHN CAGE Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place b...
FATEMA MERNISSI Sometimes a person has to let go of something to take hold of something else.
HEIDI HEILIG Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinkin...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for...
MARK OLIVER EVERETT The farm subsidy program is something that was put into place over 60 years ago, and it was put into...
STEPHEN FINCHER I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. Even the most terrible beginnings can turn into beautiful endings when the direction is changed.
APOORVE DUBEY A beautiful night with a beautiful woman is supposed to end that night; you’re not supposed to go ...
LANCE CHARNES Find something beautiful to focus on daily and allow Inspiration to have its way with you.
ALARIC HUTCHINSON Love is a beautiful feeling.
KABIR BEDI Pareidolia. One of my favorite words. It's when your mind sees a pattern you recognize where there i...
JEFF ZENTNER It's always a pleasure to perform for people who love country music. And Australians definitely ...
JOE NICHOLS That was New York; a whole cacophony of sounds and tastes that all somehow came together to form som...
AISHABELLA SHEIKH Open your mind to fill it with everything that is beautiful. Ignore the rest.
DEBASISH MRIDHA There is no time...but the present.
KENT POLLON Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we do...
CHRIS MARTIN Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
MICHAEL JACKSON The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so th...
JAMAICA KINCAID I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about ...
PICO IYER I like taking a blob of clay and turning it into something beautiful.
EMILY ALLEN Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - '...
CHRIS CLEAVE I love the idea of something beautiful happening, and then it being abrasively cut into. Because in ...
REGGIE WATTS Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
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KAREN BENDER Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beau...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrat...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whisk...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' whic...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-...
ELIZABETH GILBERT [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimac...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclus...
ELIZABETH GILBERT stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things th...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this p...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to say. To have issues with bo...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely express...
ELIZABETH GILBERT What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
ELIZABETH GILBERT This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain ou...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck,...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that...
ELIZABETH GILBERT When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali...
ELIZABETH GILBERT People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weath...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productiv...
ELIZABETH GILBERT This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I got to tell you, I think (deifying artists) was a huge error. You know, I think that allowing some...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot g...
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