Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people star

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are What are you doing now? and How are you going to beat that? And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly – that youre in battle against yourself. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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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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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 is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God. – Herschel Walker

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Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier

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I dont think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent. – Jeanne Moreau

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There is no success without hardship. – Sophocles

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Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it – often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes. – Daniel H. Wilson

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