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Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesnt always hold. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Success
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[O]ne of my favorite Sufi poems… says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Fate
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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If your life changes, we can change the world, too. – Yoko Ono

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Change

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didnt change peoples habits. It just kept them inside the house. – Alfred Hitchcock

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Change

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. – Emmeline Pankhurst

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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. – Christopher Reeve

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