Quotes from bookEat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels. The book remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 187 weeks. The movie rights for the memoir were purchased by Columbia Pictures. The film version, which stars Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, was released in theaters on August 13, 2010.Gilbert followed up this book with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, released through Viking in January 2010. It covered her life after Eat, Pray, Love, plus an exploration of the concept of marriage.
“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
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“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
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“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
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.
“Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
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“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”
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Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Variant: Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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“You have no idea how strong my love is!”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
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