Eat Pray Love Book Quotes

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

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.

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. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: “Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.

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.

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

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

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.

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

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.

I believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.