Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

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.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

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.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

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

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

You have no idea how strong my love is!

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.

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

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.

Your tears are my prayers.

Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

What do I believe that I deserve in this life?

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.

Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace!

If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.

The other day in prayer I said to God, "Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?".

Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away...meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.” - Wayan

... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.