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“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”
Source: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes about love
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes about life
Source: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
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“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
This derives from a folk proverb sometimes attributed to Clementine Paddleford, but in use as an "old proverb" as early as 1908, when Paddeford was only 10 years old.
Misattributed
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Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Variant: Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
Source: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone. I let myself into my tiny little studio, all alone. I shut the door behind me. Another early bedtime in Rome. Another long night's sleep ahead of me, with nobody and nothing in my bed except a pile of Italian phrase books and dictionaries.
I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone.
Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees, and press my forehead against the floor. There I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks.
First in English.
Then in Italian.
And then — just to get the point across — in Sanskrit.
And since I am already down there in supplication on the floor, let me hold that position as I reach back in time three years earlier to the moment where this entire story began — a moment that also found me in this exact same posture: on my knees, on a floor, praying.
“I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone.”
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: I walk up the stairs to my fourth-floor apartment, all alone. I let myself into my tiny little studio, all alone. I shut the door behind me. Another early bedtime in Rome. Another long night's sleep ahead of me, with nobody and nothing in my bed except a pile of Italian phrase books and dictionaries.
I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone.
Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees, and press my forehead against the floor. There I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks.
First in English.
Then in Italian.
And then — just to get the point across — in Sanskrit.
And since I am already down there in supplication on the floor, let me hold that position as I reach back in time three years earlier to the moment where this entire story began — a moment that also found me in this exact same posture: on my knees, on a floor, praying.
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
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…
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
“God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings”
Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
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…
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”
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“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
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Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
