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That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Broken, Ego, Feelings
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.134, A&C Black

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Addiction, Stories, Love Story
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Definitions, Rational, Eat Pray And Love

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Listening, Scream

Your tears are my prayers.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Prayer, Tears
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing

Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Beautiful, Balance
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

Elizabeth Gilbert
World, This World, Chaotic
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.77, A&C Black

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Sadness, Years, People
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.73, A&C Black

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?' Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering.

Elizabeth Gilbert
War, Grief, Two
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.150, A&C Black

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Sorry, Husband, Italian

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Swim, Castles, Moats

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Loneliness, Being Single, Single Life
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Feelings, Praying, Has Beens
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.213, Bloomsbury Publishing

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love Is, Way, Desperate
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Expectations, Fruit, Bitter
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.29, A&C Black

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

Elizabeth Gilbert
Madness, Kind, Longing
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.80, A&C Black

I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Love, Believe, Food
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.81, A&C Black

To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Beautiful, Men, Italian
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.68, A&C Black

As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

Elizabeth Gilbert
Baby, Book, Saws
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.426, A&C Black

Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Mother, Baby, Love Of My Life

I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Stay Strong, Powerful, Fall
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Loneliness, Sleep, Dark
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Two, Decision, Desire

Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Choices, Decision, Settling
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.345, A&C Black

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Elizabeth Gilbert
Transformation, Wave, Eat Love Pray
Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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