6 Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert about change
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The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even in the Eternal City (Rome), says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
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The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it. Somone makes a promise, and then they break it. A play gets good notices, and then it folds. A marriage looks strong, and then they divorce. For a while there's no war, and then there's another war. If you get too upset about it all, you become a stupid, unhappy person—and where's the good in that?
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Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end.
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It was an adventure. You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it.
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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.
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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 doesn't always hold.
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