Bali Eat Pray Love Quotes:

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Yesterday, Today, Bali Eat Pray Love

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Mirrors, Soul, Attention, Soul Life, Soulmate Love

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Happiness, Space, Suffering, Future Is Bright, Choosing Happiness

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

topic: Bali Eat Pray Love

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Stay Strong, Singles, Eat Pray And Love

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Wishbones, Kickass Women

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Life, Attitude, Fall, Jurisdiction, I Can Read

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Change, Happiness, Clothes, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Lax, My Own Happiness

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

topic: Teacher, Journey, Reality, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Family, Home, Care, Happy Family, Inspirational Family Love

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Crumbling, Want, Getting Through Hard Times, Afraid Of Change

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Balance, Sometimes, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Self Worth, Once Upon A Time, Never Forget, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Life, Emotion, Thoughts And Emotions, Eat Pray And Love

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Heart, Humility, Feet, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Disappointment, Greatness, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.112, A&C Black

topic: Art, Real, Lovely, Eat Pray Love Book, Bali Eat Pray Love

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Being Happy, Letting Go, Beautiful Life, Eat Pray Love Book, Eat Love Pray

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Sad, Robots, Emotion, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.175, A&C Black

topic: Fall, Thinking, Ego, Eat Pray Love Book, Bali Eat Pray Love

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Light, Good Friday, Eat Love Pray, Bali Eat Pray Love

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Wall, Mean, Soulmate Love, Most Important Person

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single, Loneliness In Life, Eat Pray And Love

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Mysterious, Buried, Magnet, Eat Love Pray, Pray Love

To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.277, A&C Black

topic: Thinking, Decisions You Make, Two, Eat Pray Love Book, Bali Eat Pray Love

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.168, A&C Black

topic: Destiny, Self, Play, Divine Grace, Pray Love

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.181, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Long, Lovely, Doe, Eat Pray Love Book, Bali Eat Pray Love

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Life, Depression, Fall, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Sweet, Love And Heartbreak, Break Your Heart

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Achievement, Higher, Eat Love Pray, Bali Eat Pray Love

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Loneliness, Maps, Way, Loneliness In Life, Eat Pray And Love

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Family, Tattoo, Baby, Eat Pray And Love, Pray Love

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Men, Fire, Eat Pray Love Book, Eat Love Pray

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Faith, Christian, Dark, Insurance Policy, Eat Pray And Love

Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Jobs, Prayer, Fog, Swirls, Pray Love

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Giving Up, Love And Gratitude, Grateful For You

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.206, Penguin

topic: Self Esteem, Thinking, Resentment, Eat Pray Love Book, Bali Eat Pray Love

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Character, Devastated, Desperate Love

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Life, Romantic, Spiritual Masters, Perfect Fit

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Play, Water, Religion, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Soul, Helping, Praying, Eat Pray And Love, Pray Love

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Addiction, Stories, Love Story, Eat Pray And Love, Pray Love

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Rescue, Administrators, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray, Pray Love

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Loneliness, Stronger, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book, Eat Love Pray