C. Elizabeth Quotes

You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come with you, and then ask me to stay behind!

society's been drugging its women for years

It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available.

Power is the ability not to have to please

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man.” -Nellie Bly

Move thy tongue, For silence is a sign of discontent.

And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak, Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair...now could I but unloose my soul!We are sepulchred alive in this close world, And want more room.

Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

... you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

To seek is to show valor. To endure is to show strength. To believe all will arise in a time of perfection. There shows trust and faith in you.

Sometimes God’s way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

To be at peace, does not mean that you are amiss of every storm, it only means that you can find a calm within the storm.

At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength.

There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.

Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman.

God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. “I need to make my bones.

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

Kate, I can't live my life in the shadow of your fears.

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

Living in the Spirit changes your attitude, thinking, and ultimately your actions.

How do you live out God’s plan for your life? By living God’s way one day at a time.

Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.

Be happy NOW. This moment is all you’ve got

How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I’m doing & not doing?

Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is.

Change your experience of life.

My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into the realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures

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 have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

Do what you love to do, and do it with both seriousness and lightness. At least then you will know that you have tried and that--whatever the outcome--you have traveled a noble path.

We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.

Stern observes that unformulated experience is not only a source of defense, but also a source of creativity. We must allow the unformulated to organize itself.

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?