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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Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that its actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Marriage
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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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Wisdom
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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they cant find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees. – Naguib Mahfouz

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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after Roots, and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. – Anna Deavere Smith

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Although images of perfection in peoples personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies – utopian images – can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. – Dennis Prager

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The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne

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You dont have to call it God or Jesus. Thats religious humbug to a lot of people, but youve gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life. – Jack LaLanne

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The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face – its for him to retire with a smile on his face. – Mark Cuban

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