Quotes from book

Eat, Pray, Love

“David was catnip and kryptonite to me.”

“Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.”

“The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,… The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.”

“Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.”

“The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.”

“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?”

“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

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

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

“Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies”

“All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.”

“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”

“Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.”

“Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.”

“I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?”

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.”

“Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.”

“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.”