Bali Eat Pray Love Quotes

• 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

  Soulmate, Mirrors, Flames

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

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• 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

  Happiness, Space, Suffering

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.87, A&C Black

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• 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

  Love, Romantic, Depression

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

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Stay Strong

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

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• Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• 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

  Life, Attitude, Fall

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• 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

  Change, Happiness, Clothes

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Teacher, Journey, Reality

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

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Family, Home, Care

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.257, A&C Black

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Fate, Odds

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Hard Times, Crumbling

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Balance, Sometimes

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.312, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Self Worth, Once Upon A Time, Never Forget

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.56, A&C Black

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Life, Emotional

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.127, A&C Black

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• you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Humility, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Love, Disappointment, Greatness

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• 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

  Art, Real, Lovely

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

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Being Happy, Letting Go, Beautiful Life

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sad, Robots, Emotion

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Fall, Thinking, Ego

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

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Light, Good Friday

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• 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

  Love, Wall, Mean

  "Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• 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

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mysterious, Eat Love Pray, Buried

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

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