More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

"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."
"The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident."
"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue."
"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …"