My Favorite Quotes in Eat, Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

If there is a throwback post, this would be my entry circa November 2010 in my Facebook Notes. For a certain time and condition, we pursued or pursuing for our own happiness, peace, hope and love. Sometimes things do not fall into our favor but what is important, we tried something to make it work. 

[Eat Pray Love is a story of career-oriented woman who has been married for years but at certain point in her life felt that certain emptiness and discovered that she is being unhappy with her married life.  She filed a divorce and engaged on a rebound relationship which did not work out.  The next years of her life were spent travelling the world to find her peace and happiness.

She travelled in Italy, eating and enjoying life ("Eat") for four months. She went to India for her spiritual development (“Pray”) and spent the last quarter of the year in Bali, Indonesia looking for ("Love")].

1.    “God is an experience of supreme LOVE.”

2.     “Your treasure – your perfection – is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the HEART.”

3.    “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.”

4.    “Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.”

5.    "Do not look at the world through your head; look at it through your heart."

6.    “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. “

7.    “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. “

8.    “….it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.” 

9.    “Smile not only with your lips but also with your Liver.”

10. “For everything happened, there is always reason for reason we dont know yet but soon it will be revealed.”

Single or in a relationship today, it is still indeed a HAPPY HEARTS DAY!