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. Profoundly inspirational Eat Pray Love quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Eat Pray Love Quotes
I was a writer before ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ and I’ll be a writer after it’s over. It’s what I want to do for the rest of my life. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I think I deserve something beautiful. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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…
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
The resting place of the mind is the heart. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life’s achievement. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I am a better person when I have less on my plate. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
God dwells within you, as you. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go. — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
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, Eat, Pray, Love
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, Eat, Pray, Love
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can’t even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I’m aiming for, how will it ever occur? ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, 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, Eat, Pray, Love
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, 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, 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, Eat, Pray, Love
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure–your perfection–is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship – a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
