Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert
[O]ne of my favorite Sufi poems... says that God long ago drew a c
[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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Its not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didnt have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didnt have much to do with reality. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I think its unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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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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Life calls the tune, we dance. – John Galsworthy

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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate,” which is in fact your life. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forester

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Whose madness was a challenge hurled at fate… – Edgar Fawcett, “At a Window,” Songs of Doubt and Dream, 1891

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I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didnt care about education. I dont know what I cared about. – Skeet Ulrich

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Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice? – Elliot Richardson

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Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. – Brian Klemmer

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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. – Proverb

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