Some favorite Quotes from Eat Pray Love…..
The Only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it..
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
Because how could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work.
But why must everything always have a practical application?
“To find the balance you want.”
You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it’s like you have four legs, instead of two. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart,instead. That way, you will know God.”
Opinion about prayer: “Will you change this or that thing in my life that’s difficult for me?” Because who knows? God might want me to be facing that particular challenge for a reason. Instead, i feel more comfortable praying for the courage to face whatever occurs in my life with equanimity, no matter how things turn out.
When i don’t know what i am doing, i look like don’t know what i am doing. My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.
Eat Pray Love
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right….
When you are lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost….
Because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch- there is not a chance.
That’s the thing about human life – there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would turned out if any variables had been changed.
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
You must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
The art of making something out of nothing.
The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life’s achievement.
If i love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my money, my family, my ass – everything. If i love you, i will carry all your pains, i will assume for you all your debts, i will protect you from your own insecurity….
Dear God, i could use a little break from this cycle, to give myself some space to discover what i look like and talk like when i’m not trying to merge with someone.
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.
There is a constant level of closeness that i really need from the person I love. But it just destroys me to bot be able to count on that affection when I need it.
But we are not what the other one needs.
I am making the space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
You will look at me but i will refuse to look at you.
This is perfect, that is perfect, if you take the perfect from the perfect, the perfect remains.
You are after all what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts and you are the slave to your emotions.
You have no idea how strong my love is……
“Felipe: Listen, balance, my darling, is not letting anybody love you less than you love yourself. ”
“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.”
“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 lose 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.”
There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
I think I deserve something beautiful.
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, ‘There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who’s in charge?
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.
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
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.
“Gilbert: I’m sick of people telling me that I need a man.
Felipe: You don’t need a man, Liz. You need a champion. ”
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.
Cheers
Anjali
World of uncertainty 