Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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

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

"Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table."

"Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true."

"I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water."

"I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water."

"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."

"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"

"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."

"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

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

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

"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?"

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

"The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident."

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

"I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light."

"There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer."

"It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away."

"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …"