Eat Pray Love Book Quotes:

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Yoga, Self, Inner Peace, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

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

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

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

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

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.22, A&C Black

topic: Self, Finals, Infatuation, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Honor, Divinity, Eat Pray Love Book

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

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.196, A&C Black

topic: Prayer, Long, Effort, Eat Pray Love Book

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

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Life, Beauty, Beautiful, Something Beautiful, Life Is Beautiful

I believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars.

- Margaret Wertheim

topic: Stars, Believe, Moving, Eat Pray Love Book

I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.

- Julia Roberts

topic: Meaningful, Want, Eat Love Pray, Eat Pray Love Book

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

- 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: Spiritual, Order, Joy, Weighing, Devising

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Yoga, Forever, Effort, Eat Pray Love Book

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

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

Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.308, A&C Black

topic: Women, Years, Lasts, Eat Pray Love Book, Shimmer

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

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

- Dante Alighieri

source: Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

topic: Stars, Moving, Amor, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Pray Love Book

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Writing, Opposites, Focus, Most Wanted, Eat Pray Love Book

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

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Fans, Facts, Bigs, Eat Pray Love Book

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

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Delight, World, Want, Worldly Pleasures, Eat Pray Love Book

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

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

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Healing, Solitude, Looks, Eat Pray Love Book

The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Heart, Sleep, Destiny, Eat Pray Love Book

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Heart, Silence, Mind, 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 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

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