Some of my all time favorite Quotes from
EAT. PRAY. LOVE. by Elizabeth Gilbert.
now a movie (that i have yet to see!) =]
“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You need to be certain its what you want before you commit.”
“Imagine his surprise to discover that the happiest most confident woman he’d ever met was actually – when you get her alone – was a murky hole of bottomless grief.”
“Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout Cookies, (or however that old adage goes.)”
“How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work, didn’t it?”
“I have never learned how to arrange my face into that blank expression of competent invisibility that is so useful when traveling in dangerous foreign places. You know that super relaxed totally in charge expression that makes you look like you belong there, anywhere, everywhere even in the middle of a riot in Jakarta. Oh no. When I don’t know what I’m doing I look like I don’t know what I’m doing. When I’m excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I’m lost which is frequent I look lost. My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.”
“I've been screwed, and sued and tattooed, and I’m still standin’ here in front of you.”
“When I get lonely 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 persons’ body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
“I got started early in life with this pursuit of sexual and romantic pleasure. I barely had an adolescence before I had my first boyfriend, and I have constantly had a boy or a man in my life since I was 15. I have been entwined in some kind of drama with some kind of guy, each sometimes over lapping the next, with ever so much as a week’s breather in-between. I can’t help but think that’s been something of a liability on my path to maturity.”
“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. If I love you I will carry for you all your pain. I will assume for 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. I will give you the sun & the rain and if they are not available I will give you a sun check, and a rain check. I will give you all of this and more until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is becoming infatuated with someone else. I do not relay these facts about myself with pride, but this is how it has always been"
"Sometime after I’d left my husband, I was at a party and a guy I barely knew said to me, 'You know you seem like a completely different person now that you’re with this new boyfriend. You use to look like your husband, but now you look like David. You even dress like him and talk like him. You know how some people look like their dogs? I think maybe you always look like your men'”
“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.”
"People think a soul mate 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. A true soul mate 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 soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave."
“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."
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something"
“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. There’s nothing you can ever do to loose 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."
“L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
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