Eat, Pray, Love!

               P.S. Less of a review, more of a collection of quotes

                                         P.P.S One of the most special books to me

 This beautiful book written by Elizabeth Gilbert is her own story. It is divided in three sections where the she travels to three countries- Italy, India and Indonesia.

In the third section “the love part” there were some points where I felt the urge to quit reading it because the third section is a little slow and first two sections had set the bar too high. My guess is this is why it is in the list of one of the most ‘unfinished books” in goodreads. Yet I know that the overall experience with the book was life changing. I am going to list a long number of lines that really touched me and inspired me. I am greatly impressed with the way the book seems so candid and interesting.  (I have read the book thrice. .yes, I have!)

The author ‘Liz’ is in her mid 30's facing midlife crisis. She isn't happy with her life at present and starts to feel that she doesn't belong here anymore.

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

And so with a lot of courage and struggle leaves everything behind in a quest for self discovery.

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."

I simply loved everything about the ‘Eat and pray’ and some part of ‘love’ in the book. They have such a lasting effect on me. The love for Italian food and the language. The description about the people and the culture.Her honest memoir of the path she takes to find God. 

Spirituality amuses and attracts me. That is another reason why this book held my attention so well.

“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”

“Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.” 

“Gods dwell within you, as you”

The author is really a ‘world traveler’. The lessons that she learns from everything she observes during her travel are outstanding. She is gifted in that sense.

 Leaving a life behind is a really brave decision to make. You not only break other people’s heart but also your own. Those who are in their early or late 20's should read the book. A few of them must already be facing a bit of a quarter life crisis. It will inspire them to truly find themselves so they never have to reach a point where they possess everything they ever chased and yet feel so empty. Leaving then won’t be an option for many. Even if it is, it will ruin the lives of the ones they love.

Of course, it is all over the internet that this book is the ‘breakup bible’ for all the broken hearts out there. And I couldn't agree more. 

“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.”

“eventually, everything goes away.”

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

“But I love him.”
“So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it."

This book might give you a totally different perspective about heartbreaks, life and yourself.

Here I’ll share some more quotes from eat pray love that I re-read every now and then because they really are so beautiful.

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”

“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” 

“ I was full of 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.” 

“I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" — a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared – most of all – to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself... then truth will not be withheld from you." Or so I've come to believe.”


“God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”

“Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.


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