35 Best Eat Pray Love Quotes By Elizabeth Gilbert 2023

Eat Pray Love Quotes

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

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.

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?

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.

Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

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.

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.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

Eat Pray Love Quotes About Food

We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.

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?

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.

But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

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.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced

life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Eat Pray Love Quotes Ruin

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.

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.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy. ~Elizabeth Gilbert

Smile with face, smile with mind and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. ~Elizabeth Gilbert

Embrace the Glorious Mess that you are.

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.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughta be.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day.

I think I deserve something beautiful

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone.. That’s how the light of God gets in.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.

To have broken heart means you have tried for something.