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“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“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

“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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

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

“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

“God is an experience of supreme love.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“God dwells within you, as you.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“You love new boyfriend?"
"I think so. Yes."
"Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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

“Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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

“This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage