More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

"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?"
"There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever,"and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I’d given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely..."
"We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality."
"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."
"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."