"Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up."

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Source : "Are You Willing to Let Go?" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2014.

Elizabeth Gilbert

“There is no Apocalypse.”
“I always get because people remember me as a really small, skinny kid. And then when they meet me, I'm just kind of towering over them. I'm 6'2. I'm not a giant, but compared to what a lot of people remember me as, it's a little bigger.”
“I'm a really bad liar.”
“When I take the mound in Yankee Stadium I feel like my stuff is going to be better than ever.”
“Greatness in art is always a by-product.”

Source : Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.231, University of Chicago Press
“The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”
“Know thine opportunity.”

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