The best quotes by the author we have brought to you
“As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff of it is bad for you.” (Eat, Pray, Love Quotes)
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“Bullshit is a word that has been more emotionally incorporated into Balinese than almost any other in the English language. It’s one of the very worst things you can call someone in Bali – “a bullshit.””
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it’s what you want before you commit.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the ‘monkey mind’ the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“If you clear out all of that space in your mind you would have a doorway.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“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
Eat, Pray, Love
“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
Eat, Pray, Love
“It’s not a ludicrous hypothesis to say that the Balinese are the global masters of balance, the people for whom the maintenance of perfect equilibrium is an art, a science and a religion.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“Om Namah Shivaya, meaning,
Elizabeth Gilbert
I honor the divinity that resides within me.”
Eat, Pray, Love
“Rome doesn’t compete. Rome just watches all the fussing and striving, completely unfazed, exuding an air like: Hey – do whatever you want, but I’m still Rome. I am inspired by the regal self-assurance of this town, so grounded and rounded, so amused and monumental, knowing that she is held securely in the palm of history. I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady ”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“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
Eat, Pray, Love
“The Balinese don’t wait and see “how things go.” That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“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.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny’s molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“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.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“This is the supreme lesson of karma – take care of the problems now, or else you’ll just have to suffer again later when you screw everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering – that’s hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understanding – there’s where you’ll find heaven.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don’t really want to live in it.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches!”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“When I don’t know what I’m doing, I look like I don’t know what I’m doing. When I’m excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost. My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“Yoga is the effort to experience one’s divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever. Yoga is about self-mastery and the dedicated effort to haul your attention away from your endless brooding over the past and your nonstop worrying about the future so that you can seek, instead, a place of eternal presence from which you may regard yourself and your surroundings with poise. Only from that point of even-mindedness will the true nature of the world (and yourself) be revealed to you.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat, Pray, Love
“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
Eat, Pray, Love
