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

  Teacher, Journey, Reality

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

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Italian, Men, Looks

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

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• 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

  Crazy, Lying, Fall

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

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• 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

  Hands, Joy, Needs

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

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• 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

  Life Lesson, Groups, Variables

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

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• 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

  Running, Divorce, Doors

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Smoking, Soul, Puff

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

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• Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dark, Definitions, Faces

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Heart, Mean, Love Is

  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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• 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

  Passion, Mean, Eye

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.21, 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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• The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Leaving, Impossible

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, 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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• 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 leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Wall

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

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Stronger, Eat Love Pray

  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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• Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Tough Times, Crumbling

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• 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

  Love, Heartbreak, Character

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.20, A&C Black

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• 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

  Humility, Heart, Feet

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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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• But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Being Single, Single Life

  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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• 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

  Love, Life, Romantic

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

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Karma, Heartbreak

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

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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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• God dwells within you, as you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eat Love Pray, Bali Eat Pray Love, Eat Pray And Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.183, A&C Black

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