Eat Pray Love Book Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Love, Heartbreak, Sweet

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

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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 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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  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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• 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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• A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Wall, What Is Love, Soul

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, 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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• 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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• We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Yoga, Self, Inner Peace

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.118, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Self, Finals, Infatuation

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

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Honor, Divinity, Eat Love Pray

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.26, A&C Black

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• 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

  Understanding, Saying Yes, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• 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

  Prayer, Long, Effort

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

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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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• 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

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.121, Bloomsbury Publishing

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