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Top 20 Elizabeth Day Quotes (2024 Update)

Elizabeth Day Quote: “The danger of the mind to trick one into thinking all the bad things we imagine are facts when in truth, they are just thoughts which are, in turn, a product of our experience. We exist separately from our thoughts.”

1. “The danger of the mind to trick one into thinking all the bad things we imagine are facts when in truth, they are just thoughts which are, in turn, a product of our experience. We exist separately from our thoughts.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “Living your life according to what everyone else might think of you is to cede control of who you are. It is to outsource your identity to a bunch of strangers who do not know you.”

2. “Living your life according to what everyone else might think of you is to cede control of who you are. It is to outsource your identity to a bunch of strangers who do not know you.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “That’s the problem with charm. It means you get away with stuff. It means you never have to develop a real character because no one remembers to look for one. They’re too busy basking in the glow of your attention. They’re too busy being impressed.”

3. “That’s the problem with charm. It means you get away with stuff. It means you never have to develop a real character because no one remembers to look for one. They’re too busy basking in the glow of your attention. They’re too busy being impressed.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “But other people’s money has a narcotic quality. It makes you high. It makes you forget your misgivings. You feel privileged, somehow exceptional to have been invited, as though the tiniest fleck of gold leaf from a giant glittering statue has smudged off on you and you can kid yourself you belong. That you are, for a single night, indubitably One of Them.”

4. “But other people’s money has a narcotic quality. It makes you high. It makes you forget your misgivings. You feel privileged, somehow exceptional to have been invited, as though the tiniest fleck of gold leaf from a giant glittering statue has smudged off on you and you can kid yourself you belong. That you are, for a single night, indubitably One of Them.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, but these have been placeholder emotions. And for so long we have been encouraged to do this by a misogynistic culture that realises female anger is dangerous not because it is the product of mental imbalance but because it is fuel. Female anger is power.”

5. “For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, but these have been placeholder emotions. And for so long we have been encouraged to do this by a misogynistic culture that realises female anger is dangerous not because it is the product of mental imbalance but because it is fuel. Female anger is power.”

— Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day Quote: “Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the light, you have to rebuild what you thought you knew about yourself.”

6. “Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the light, you have to rebuild what you thought you knew about yourself.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “One half of the table was arguing with the other half about the rights and wrongs of the Iraq war, in that semi-detached, earnest way that moneyed people do, always safe in the knowledge no political outcome will really affect them.”

7. “One half of the table was arguing with the other half about the rights and wrongs of the Iraq war, in that semi-detached, earnest way that moneyed people do, always safe in the knowledge no political outcome will really affect them.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “That’s not to say forward planning is pointless, but unless you can actively contribute something practical towards your future growth right now, there’s no point worrying about the things you can’t yet control.”

8. “That’s not to say forward planning is pointless, but unless you can actively contribute something practical towards your future growth right now, there’s no point worrying about the things you can’t yet control.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “You can have and do and be anything you want. But you refuse to want because then you’ll have to do and be.”

9. “You can have and do and be anything you want. But you refuse to want because then you’ll have to do and be.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “That there is no one on this big, wide planet who can understand the you-ness of you more than you.”

10. “That there is no one on this big, wide planet who can understand the you-ness of you more than you.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “We’ve been told that success is to be known by others, when in truth the most meaningful success is to know ourselves.”

11. “We’ve been told that success is to be known by others, when in truth the most meaningful success is to know ourselves.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “I began to realise that if I never achieved anything outwardly ever again, I would still exist. The voice in my head is not who I am.”

12. “I began to realise that if I never achieved anything outwardly ever again, I would still exist. The voice in my head is not who I am.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “A friend has not made a commitment, has not signed a contract or walked down the aisle and promised to love you until death do you part. A friend does not need to do anything or be anyone in order to make you feel better about yourself. Of course, the greatest friends do this anyway, but it is not their job and you should not expect it of them.”

13. “A friend has not made a commitment, has not signed a contract or walked down the aisle and promised to love you until death do you part. A friend does not need to do anything or be anyone in order to make you feel better about yourself. Of course, the greatest friends do this anyway, but it is not their job and you should not expect it of them.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “Adventures do by definition involve risk, but not having an adventure means missing out on life, a far greater risk.”

14. “Adventures do by definition involve risk, but not having an adventure means missing out on life, a far greater risk.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “If you can remove your ego from a process, then there really isn’t any difference between success and failure. They’re just both parts of a process. And that you shouldn’t look at a failure as something terrible, it just is what it is and you shouldn’t look at success as something great, it just is what it is.”

15. “If you can remove your ego from a process, then there really isn’t any difference between success and failure. They’re just both parts of a process. And that you shouldn’t look at a failure as something terrible, it just is what it is and you shouldn’t look at success as something great, it just is what it is.”

— Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day Quote: “If you treat yourself as high value, it turns out other people are more likely to do so as well.”

16. “If you treat yourself as high value, it turns out other people are more likely to do so as well.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “As I’ve grown to understand myself better, I’ve also grown to know which are the friends I can truly rely on in times of crisis and who want the best for me.”

17. “As I’ve grown to understand myself better, I’ve also grown to know which are the friends I can truly rely on in times of crisis and who want the best for me.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “She was of a different time. Part of her still is. I have never worked out which time, exactly. It could be that the one she belongs to hasn’t been invented yet.”

18. “She was of a different time. Part of her still is. I have never worked out which time, exactly. It could be that the one she belongs to hasn’t been invented yet.”

— Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day Quote: “Being honest and publicly vulnerable is not the only way to be, but it’s certainly a brave and deeply humane way to be.”

19. “Being honest and publicly vulnerable is not the only way to be, but it’s certainly a brave and deeply humane way to be.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “That made me look like a boy who didn’t have a home full of packed bookshelves but who instead relied on his mother’s Reader’s Digest for reading material.”

20. “That made me look like a boy who didn’t have a home full of packed bookshelves but who instead relied on his mother’s Reader’s Digest for reading material.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “People you considered the closest, most loyal, most intimate allies, will drift away from you and quite often, you won’t know why.”

21. “People you considered the closest, most loyal, most intimate allies, will drift away from you and quite often, you won’t know why.”

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Elizabeth Day Quote: “Like every conventional woman, Lucy likes to pretend she is unconventional by buying attention-seeking shoes.”

22. “Like every conventional woman, Lucy likes to pretend she is unconventional by buying attention-seeking shoes.”

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