“It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.”

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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American writer 1969

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