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“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything

“It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“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 book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

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
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: The Signature of All Things

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“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 book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“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

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: 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 book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: 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 book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, there are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love