As is my wont when I find a good book, I took notes while I was reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. I’ve bookmarked and jotted down many of the anecdotes, facts, and words of wisdom I found in the book because I might be able to use them in my homilies and talks. Eat, Pray, Love is such a fascinating read, one that I recommend to any person trying to rediscover him/herself.
I hope the following quotes will encourage you to eat well, pray regularly and love passionately.
- “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. “
- “Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”
- “In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
- “We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”
- “Your treasure – your perfection – is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
- “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.”
- “In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. The appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor to one’s humanity.”
- “God is an experience of supreme love.”
- “Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.”
- “There is a reason they call God a presence – because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.”
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wow! Thanks for posting the bookmarked parts of one good find, father.
I’m thinking of having one. I got interested because I first heard of the book from my poet friend and now I’m surprised to stumble on the title of the book again from you. ^_^
By the way, thank you so much for the cool retreat. It was different from the usual retreats I attended- good different, that is. ^_^
I am a collector also of great quotes. I only watched the movie, and I think the book is much better (based from reviews I’ve read). The quotes from the movies are different from those quoted from the book (Ive searched some). Thanks for the review, Fr. Stephen. Regards.
Hello Fr. Stephen, just love the quotes you compiled from this movie. My son, Kenneth bought this book for his English lessons. I borrowed it to add to my ” books to read “… while on summer break at Cote d’Azur last June 2010. My heart rejoiced when the film was done. Seeing the movie, I prefer the book account. But it is a gorgeous film travelling through the 3 I’s of Italy, India and Indonesia…lovely time with my friends. Now, we can empower ourselves basing from the nuggets of wisdom it integrated. Malipayong Pasko ug mabulahang 2011 !
I am very much like this movie eat pray love its give you the inspiring life that would able to change your life and to find the happiness…i hope i could find my happiness too.God bless!
“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
=This is so true n0y. To be happy means to decide to be happy. Oftentimes we are so dependent on our expectations of other people. For things to look different, we have to change our mindset.
Thanks. Amazing quotes. God bless!
Hi!Can I repost this, but of course, I’ll give credits to you..I’d just like to share the great words that I have read and watched from eat pray love that you have written.Thanks!
I watch the movie of Eat,pray Love for almost 8 times. =)
I haven’t read the book yet..
Amazing Quotes!
No disrespect, but this book and movie is about a woman who leaves her husband and family and searches for “herself” by looking to culture, food, and men. How is this a God-exalting, Biblical example of what God wants for His people? Don’t be fooled when she talks about God – she is not talking about Jesus, but of the worldly idea of a higher-power, spiritual Being. If we are to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ in this desperate world, we cannot point people to movies like this. We need to point them to the Bible. God is not found in a soul-mate, food, or traveling, or beauty. Yes, He created those things and they are not bad, but don’t confuse or credit them as being Yahweh.
I can only agree to Marissa. while those are attractive quotes that we can refer to once in a while but then let us not be tempted by this secular world. I have seen the film but I have not read the book . That is why it is important to know Jesus and his role in your life and to anchor your life with His teachings. I also will not encourage especially my students to watch the film for it contradicts the very essence of our existence. If we search for happiness outside our life at present, there is danger in that because sometimes happiness is a state of mind. You will not leave your husband/wife for that matter just because you are no longer happy. Choosing a life anchored in Jesus is the best way to find your true self.
i love god i love Jesus and i’m so proud to be christian
For 5years…& Right now at this very minute, I just want to leave and never come back. To those who got the courage to go and live in truth, let them be, why live a lie?
i love it its so inspiring
i watch the movie eat, pray, love, for almost 10 times, on my hubby`s laptop. but i haven`t read the book yet. I`m trying to find one to read. i think the book is much better so your mind be filled with all the lessons in it. when I watch the movie I jot down every quotes i remember form this movie, and i think in book there`s a lot of quotes that i happen to pass while watching.
THANKS A LOT for the quotes is SO AMAZING….and INSPIRING………..