If you have to pick one book that could resonate with your heart and soul, which one would it be? To me, that would be Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I got the first copy of the book shortly after it was published, and if you take a look at that book now, you might feel pity for it.
I’ve dragged it with me to a few different jobs, I’ve read it in coffee places, in my lunch breaks, in the bed before going to sleep, on the beach while sunbathing myself (and the book pages)… I’ve read and re-read some pages over and over again… because it resonates on so many levels. For example, the second quote on this list below could be written easily by me because that’s what I used to be as well.
And if you are searching for Eat Pray Love quotes now, that would mean you most likely have a similar connection with it too.
What awed me the most was the colorful way Gilbert described her emotions at any point of her journey. Nothing felt hidden, and nothing felt swept under the rug. Her heart’s most painful and vulnerable moments were described with such accuracy and vividness in front of the world that it doesn’t leave any other choice but to just cherish that vulnerability and honesty.
So, here below, I’ve listed 77 of my most favorite quotes from that bestseller, and I hope, whatever your reason to search for them, to be exactly what you needed.
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1. “Do not look at the world through your head; look at it through your heart.”
2. “I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long), waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance, I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
3. “In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.”
4. “The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.”
5. “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.”
6. “To feel physically comfortable with someone else’s body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look.”
7. “I think I deserve something beautiful.”
8. “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.”
9. “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?’”
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10. “To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.”
11. “Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
12. “People think a soulmate 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.”
13. “It’s still two human beings trying to get along, so it’s going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling.”
14. “A true soulmate 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 soulmate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you and then leave.”
15. ” I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog’s money, my
dog’s time—everything.”
16. “Love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
17. “A soul mate’s 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…”
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18. “If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself, and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family…”
19. “Go back to bed’, said the omniscient interior voice, because you don’t need to know the final answer right now, at three o’clock in the morning on the Thursday in November. ‘Go back to bed’, because I love you. ‘Go back to bed’, because the only thing you need to do for now is getting some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer.”
20. “God is an experience of supreme love.”
21. “You love your new boyfriend?”
“I think so. Yes.”
“Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.”
22. “To my taste, the men in Rome, are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say – no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.”
23. “You have no idea how strong my love is!”
24. “My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She did not cop out on herself. The benefits of her choices are massive – a long, stable marriage to a man she still calls her best friend; a family that has extended now into grandchildren who adore her; a certainty in her own strength. Maybe some things were sacrificed, and my dad made his sacrifices, too – but who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
25. “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.”
26. “Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching; I mean, you got zapped, kiddo.”
27. “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 it spoken before..”
28. “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.”
29. “That love you felt, that’s just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. That’s just limited, little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. Heck, Groceries—you have the capacity to someday love the whole world. It’s your destiny. Don’t laugh.”
30. “Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”
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31. “I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s Sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?”
32. “My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath, and announced: “I want a spiritual teacher.”
33. “Then my mother shocked me. She said, ” All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too.” [She] showed me the handful of bullets she’d had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married…) to my father. “You have to understand how little I was raised to expect that I desired in life, honey. Remember- I come from a different time and place… and you have to understand how much I love your father.”
34. “…for you, I am even willing to suffer. Whatever pain happens to us in the future, I accept it already, just for the pleasure of being with you now. Let’s enjoy this time. It’s marvelous.”
35. “We’re already separated, that’s official, but there’s still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.”
36. “You cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predictable of calamities.”
37. “I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn’t wake him to share in my distress.”
38. “Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.”
39. “As an old friend of mine once told me, you can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.”
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40. “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
41. “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.”
42. “It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
43. “We all want things to stay the same, settle for living in misery because we’re afraid of change.”
44. “If you clear out all that space in your mind that you’re using right now to obsess about this guy, you’ll have a vacuum there, an open spot – a doorway. And guess what the universe will do with the doorway? It will rush in – God will rush in – and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed. So stop using David to block that door. Let it go.”
45. “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
46. “Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life.”
47. “How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?”
48. “How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It’s not only possible, it’s essential.”
49. “I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!”
50. Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship – a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
51.”You find love, then love goes away. You are born with nothing, you work hard, then you die with nothing. You are young, then you are old. No matter how hard you work, you cannot stop getting old. – Wayan”
52. “Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.”
53. “My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn’t that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends? ”
54. “This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm, and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I’d only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine?”
55. “Someday, you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning, and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…”
56. “At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
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57. “Your treasure – your perfection – is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
58. “That’s just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you’re flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.”
59. “Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.”
60. “When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.”
61. “This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”
62. “Loneliness watches and sights, then climb into my bed and pull the covers over… himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight; I just know it.”
63. “I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.”
64. “He is only happy when he can maintain himself – mentally and spiritually – at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.”
65. “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.”
66. “There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.”
67. “It all comes down to one simple question: “Do you want your belly pressed against this person’s belly forever–or not?”
68. “When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.”
69. “Sometimes our hearts are broken so new light can get in.”
70. “I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
71. “He looks at you like you’re someone he’s never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You’re a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.”
72. “This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”
73. “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
74. “Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.”
75. “But I love him. So love him. But I miss him. So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.”
76. “[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company.”
77. “You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
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