Eat Pray Love Book Quotes - Page 2

• The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Sleep, Destiny

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.276, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• 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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  L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Moving, Sun

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  World, Sometimes, Disaster

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.112, A&C Black

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• The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Life, Stars

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Three, Lists

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• 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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• I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.

  Julia Roberts

  Meaningful, Want, Eat Love Pray

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• Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Men, Fire

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.149, A&C Black

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• I believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Stars, Believe, Moving

  "Margaret Wertheim: The Grandeur and Limits of Science". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 16, 2017.

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• Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Women, Years, Lasts

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.308, 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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• But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, Lovely, Doe

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.181, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Reason, Best Eat Pray Love, Right Now

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Decisions You Make, Two

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.277, A&C Black

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Facts, Fans, Bigs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.17, A&C Black

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• This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Healing, Solitude, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Silence, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Peace, Crazy, Passion

  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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• Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Thinking, Ego

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.175, A&C Black

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• All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

  Kabir

  Inspirational, Ocean, Eat Pray And Love

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• Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Choices, Eat Love Pray, Bali Eat Pray Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.169, A&C Black

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