Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

#1. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. 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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

Anneli Rufus

#6. I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path.

SARK

#7. One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away...meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny." - Wayan

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.

Ashwin Sanghi

#11. Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty.

Corrie Ten Boom

#12. If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.

Gil Scott-Heron

#13. Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Noah's wife, who said to him after 40 days and 40 nights, It's your turn to spread the papers on the floor! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#15. Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. God only speaks to those who understand the language

Albert Hofmann

#17. I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

Clive Anderson

#18. Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. When their eyes connected she tilted her head slightly ... paused, and smiled. It was as if she needed to see him at a different angle to insure that her instant desire wasn't a vanishing mirage

Carl Henegan

#22. Go back to bed so that, when the tempest comes, you'll be strong enough to deal with it. And the tempest is coming, dear one. Very soon. But not tonight.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. I'd never known that
anyone could kiss in English, kiss in apologies.

Karen Chance

#24. You have no idea how strong my love is!

Elizabeth Gilbert

#25. The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#26. He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#27. Do me a favor, my people, and stick your suffering heritage up your suffering ass_ I happen also to be a human being!

Philip Roth