Best Eat Pray Love Quotes:

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

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

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.68, A&C Black

topic: Italian, Men, Looks, Best Eat Pray Love

Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where all is correct. But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion." Nothing follows a regular course. Her argument was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will be more perilous.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.95, A&C Black

topic: Crazy, Lying, Fall, Woolf, Eat Love Pray

So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spontaneous handstand--isn't something a disembodied cool blue soul can do, but a human being can do it. We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

topic: Night, Blue, Hands, Stood Up, Eat Pray Love Book

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.54, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Life Lesson, Groups, Variables, Best Eat Pray Love

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Running, Divorce, Doors, Contradicting, Eat Pray And Love

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.177, A&C Black

topic: Smoking, Soul, Puff, Pray Love, Best Eat Pray Love

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Understanding, Saying Yes, Way, Eat Pray Love Book, Best Eat Pray Love

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.260, A&C Black

topic: Heart, Mean, Love Is, Best Eat Pray Love

He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

topic: Passion, Mean, Eye, Check Yourself, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Karma, Heartbreak, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

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

God dwells within you, as you.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Eat Love Pray, Pray Love, Best 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

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

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

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

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

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

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

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

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Heart, Perfection, Silence, 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

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Life, Positivity, Live Your Own Life, My Own Life, Eat Pray And 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

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

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Life, Stars, Desire Love, Divine Comedy

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Falling In Love, Clever, Perfect, Eat Love Pray, Really Clever

I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.

- Kerry Cohen

topic: Way, Heard, Get Over, Best Eat Pray Love

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Heart, Eye, May, Eat Pray Love Book, Best Eat Pray Love

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

- Kabir

topic: Inspirational, Ocean, Eat Pray Love Book, Best Eat Pray Love

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

Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Country, Hair, Doors, Bandits, Motels

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Reason, Eat Pray Love Book, Best Eat Pray Love

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