Eat Pray Love, some of my fav quotes.

    I've been raving about this book for close to six months and I noticed today that I have blogged about it. Please allow me to correct this grievous error of judgement.

   I am so so so so so in love with this book. I love this book more than any i have ever read. Gilbert is such an amazing writer. I want to be just like her, only less liberal and not as skinny. And not as tortured if i can help it. But seriously, it will be one of the great classics twenty years from now. Keep in mind I've probably read more books in the last 15 years than most people have in the last 70.

   The quality of the writing is so awesome, so fantastic, its hard not to love it. It's about one woman's journey “to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India, and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two.”

Here are some of my fav quotes:

"Traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt...that to travel is worth any cost of sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby---I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because its mine. Because it looks exactly like me. It can barf all over me if it wants to---I just don't care." p. 41

"The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught."p 29

"In the end, what I have come to believe about God is simple. It's like this-- I used to have this really great dog. She came from the pound. She was a mixture of about ten different breeds, but seemed to have inherited the finest features of them all. She was brown. When people asked me,What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: 'she's a brown dog.' Similarly, when the question is raised, 'What kind of God do you believe in?' my answer is easy: 'I believe in a magnificent God.' " p. 14

"I want to have a lasting experience of God... Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I lose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time, but I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights, but also devote myself to God."

"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’s holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you and then they leave. And thank God for it... Problem is, you can’t accept that this relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby—you’re just lickin’ at an empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And, if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable.”

"I warn myself not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve."

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

"To my taste. the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidfully beautiful. even more beautiful than the Roman women to be honest...They're like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud. The men here, in their beauty, force me to call upon romance novel rhapsodies in order to describe them. They are 'devilishly attractive' or 'cruelly handsome' or 'surprisingly muscular.'"