Eat Pray Love Book Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert, Dante Alighieri, Margaret Wertheim, Kabir, Julia Roberts, Saint Augustine and many others.
There is a reason they call God a presence – because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
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.
to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
God dwells within you, as you.
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.
He is, most of all, l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.
The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go.
In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, ‘I’ve always been a big fan of your work.
True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I’m going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.
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.
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character.
