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Quotes About Change

Everything falls apart. The only thing in life that is permanent is family.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I was not one for telling the truth back then. Truth telling was not my first instinct in any situation - especially in stressful situations. It took my many years to become an honest person, and I know why: because the truth is often terrifying. Once you introduce truth into a room, the room may never be the same again.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't want to be afraid of bright colors, or new sounds, or big love, or risky decisions, or strange experiences, or weird endeavors, or sudden changes, or even failure.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
At some point I had stopped being in love with him and had fallen in love with the story of him and me instead.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong tom or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough- but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
My life had gone to bits and I was so unrecognizable to myself that I probably couldn't have picked me out of a police lineup.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I still can't believe I lost my virginity today!" "You'll never miss it," she said. And do you know something? She was absolutely right.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We can change our wives," he said. "We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it. Someone 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?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, I don't want my children growing up in a household like this. Susan said, Why don't you leave those so-called children out of the discussion? They don't even exist yet. Why can't you just admit that you don't want to live in unhappiness anymore?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Qualquer movimento é melhor do que a inércia, pois a inspiração sempre será atraída para o movimento.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Interesting outcomes, after all, are just awful outcomes with the volume of drama turned way down. I
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later - again, for its own mysterious reasons. And a shared private heaven can quickly descend into a failed private hell.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places, in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
But this is a city that gets born anew in the fresh eyes of every young person who arrives here for the first time. So that city, that place—newly created for my eyes only—will never exist again. It is preserved forever in my memory like an orchid trapped in a paperweight. That city will always be my perfect New York.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
i don't want to be marry anymore
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I wanted to be all Gandhi about this. I wanted to be all Nelson Mandela about this. Not realizing at the time that both Gandhi and Mandela were lawyers.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert