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“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“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

“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Dear me, how I love a library.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, 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, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Teach your heart that this is destiny”
― elizabeth gilbert

“Devotion is diligence without assurance”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Il bel far niente. ”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message:

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.


People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate -- and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love