Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes.

11. "To have issues with boundaries, one must have boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog’s money, my dog’s time—everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

12. "Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal/ financial complications or the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Deborah once advised me wisely: Nobody ever died from splitting up furniture.) It’s the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

13. "Îl implora întruna pe Dumnezeu:Te rog, te rog, deschide-mi inima. Asta era tot ce-şi dorea: o inima deschisa.(…)După câteva luni de rugă continuă pentru o inimă deschisă, ce credeţi că a primit Richard? (…)o operaţie de urgenţă pe cord deschis. Pieptul i-a fost tăiat în două, coastele i-au fost depărtate unele de altele şi au lăsat lumina să-i intre în inimă la propriu(…)."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

14. "My spiritual investigations interest my sister mostly from a point of intellectual curiosity. 'I think that kind of faith is so beautiful,' she whispers to me in the church, 'but I can't do it, I just can't..."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

15. "Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn’t try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I’ve calmed down."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

16. "The word paradise, by the way, which comes to us from the Persian, means literally a walled garden."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

17. "Om Namah Shivaya. I honor the divinity that resides within me. ...I repeat it again. Again. And again. It's not so much that I'm meditating as unpacking the mantra carefully, the way you would unpack your grandmother's best china if it had been stored in a box for a long time, unused."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

18. "Desire is the design flaw.) The"
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

19. "Don't we have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for awhile."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

20. "Tôi tin là cả hai chúng tôi đã làm người kia sốc khi nhanh chóng từ những người hiểu nhau nhất [trở] thành hai kẻ xa lạ khó hiểu đối với nhau nhất trên đời. Nguyên nhân sâu xa của sự xa lạ đó là sự thật thăm thẳm rằng cả hai chúng tôi đều làm điều mà người kia chẳng bao giờ [nghĩ] là có thể [xảy ra]; anh ấy không bao giờ nghĩ là tôi có thể thật sự rời bỏ anh, và tôi ngay cả trong tưởng tượng rồ dại nhất cũng không nghĩ được là anh ấy sẽ gây khó khăn cho sự ra đi của mình đến vậy."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat