Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Quotes

• “There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever,"and I have never heard...”
• “Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a re...”
• “Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that fo...”
• “I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is...”
• “[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found ...”
• “When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with i...”
• “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you c...”
• “But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle i...”
• “I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I ...”
• “Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has ve...”
• “Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperat...”
• “I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings hav...”
• “In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then fee...”
• “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 ...”
• “I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whate...”
• “I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play ...”
• “The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to l...”
• “من شأن السجود أن يصبح باردًا ويغرق في الملل المألوف إن تركت انتباهك يشت عنه .ولكن إن حافظت على تركيزك ، فإنك تتحمل بذلك ...”
• “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-...”
• “There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of ...”
• “True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible ...”
• “We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortali...”
• “You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotion...”
• “The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go...”
• “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
• “Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.”
• “In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …”
• “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
• “عندما يمنحك الله الحياة ، من واجبك (ومن حقك ككائن بشري) أن تجد شيئًا جميلًا فيها ، مهما كان ضئيلًا”
• “Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”
• “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
• “I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
• “One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
• “نصف فائدة السجود تتمثل في الطلب بحدّ ذاته ، في النية السليمة الواضحة .”
• “The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.”
• “It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
• “Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
• “Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”