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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

The 10th anniversary edition of one of the most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books of our time. Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love touched the world and changed countless lives, inspiring and empowering millions of readers to searc

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“I disappear into the person I love. If I love you, you can have it all.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating

“A woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: H4D-52, kitchen, Women

“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Improvement, road to a better life

“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.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Fate, order, Destiny, Human Nature

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Counting days, Experiences

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, strength, Trying, Brokenheart

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Best Days, Happiness, Suffering, Future, unknown

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.’”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Self Worth, Your Love For Yourself

“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.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Thoughts, Control, Power, minds

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: wishing, Backbone, strength, Dreams

“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude, Leaving

“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. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Loneliness, Depression, help, Friendship, Healing

“The Balinese don't wait and see 'how things go.' That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences

“A soulmate's purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Forever With You

“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 scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude

“I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: Loneliness, Depression, Life

“One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It ha…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“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 scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com