Eat Pray Love Book Quotes

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.

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

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.

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go.

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

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.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

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.

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.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

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.

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

He is, most of all, l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.

Yoga is the effort to experience one’s divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.