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Eat, Pray, Love

One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
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…
You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.
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…
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
"Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies..."
But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a…
"L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. The love that moves the sun and the other stars." — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love "You got to stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone 'oughtta be." — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat…
"When I get lonely these days, 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 person's body or emotions as a…
"Dear me, how I love a library." — Elizabeth Gilbert "Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit." — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's…