Pray Love Quotes

• Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

  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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Teacher, Journey, Reality

  "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Family, Tattoo, Baby

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.12, A&C Black

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Faith, Courage, Dark

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

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Attitude, Fall

  60 Copy quote

• We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Perfection, Silence

  10 Copy quote

• we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Family, Home, Care

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.257, A&C Black

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Being Yourself, Positivity

  82 Copy quote

• God dwells within you, as you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eat Love Pray, Bali Eat Pray Love, Eat Pray And Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.183, A&C Black

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Self, Play

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.168, A&C Black

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Self Worth, Once Upon A Time, Never Forget

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.56, A&C Black

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  Buddhist, Swings, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Love, Heartbreak, Character

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.20, A&C Black

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  79 Copy quote

• The resting place of the mind is the heart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Mind, Eat Love Pray

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source