Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be

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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And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people its also a political and economic contract of the highest order. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, its that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost cant wait too long. Its the single simplest measure to predict divorce. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. – David Bohm

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Men would not live long in society, were they not the mutual dupes of each other. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. – Robert Greene Ingersoll, “The New Testament,” Some Reasons Why, 1881

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Im an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. – Jessica Hagedorn

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