Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Quotes

sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard

But I love him.""So love him.""But I miss him.""So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).

Don't we have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for awhile.

Fear--who cares?

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.

Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. “I need to make my bones.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying the only thing more impossible than stayin the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.g was leaving.

The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all.

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

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

Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.

... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world, " says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

... you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

... most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty?

... to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.

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.

You learn to smile even in you liver?''Even in my lire, Ketut. Big smile in my liver.

I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

Well... "why" is a hard question to answer in any language.

We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something