Elizabeth Gilbert's Quote - I dont think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mis

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I dont think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. – 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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I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Society

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed? Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why youre so content. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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sad

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