EAT PRAY LOVE

The stories is about.....

At 32 years old, Elizabeth Gilbert was educated and had a home, a husband, and a successful career as a writer. However, she was unhappy in her marriage and often spent the night crying on her bathroom floor. She has an affair, during which she separated from her husband and initiated a divorce, which he contested. The affair continued for some time but did not work out, leaving her devastated and alone. While writing an article on yoga vacations in Bali, she met a ninth-generation medicine man who told her she would come back and study with him. After finalizing her difficult divorce, she spent the next year traveling. She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life (Eat). She spent four months in India, finding her sprituallity (Pray). She ended the year in  Bali, Indonesia looking for "balance" of the two and found love (Love) in the form of a dashing Brazilian factory owner. 

If you ask me, " How is EAT PRAY LOVE?" My answer is "EAT PRAY LOVE is GREAT. It's totally AWESOME..." Maybe others will have different opinion.. but for me it's one of movies that's meaningful and I got something watching this movie. it's not just for fun but I can learn something especially bout life. There are lots things I can't share with you... You must watch it yourself then get something or not. You know, sometimes there are things can't be spoken, can't be written by words. 

Here are my favorite quotes from this movie...

"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. "

"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. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."

"Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly."

"To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life."

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

"Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend."

"Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit."

"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."

"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."

“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed."

"The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement."

"Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing..."

"God dwells within you, as you."

"The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go."

"Devotion is diligence without assurance"

"You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place."

“The only way I can recover, be touch with someone else.”

“Devotion is love.”

“Smile with face, smile with mind, and smile with heart.”

“Love is scary, dangerous.”

“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”

Liz Gilbert, i admire her. She is a brave woman, dare to speak up and even divorce because of unhappiness. She dare traveling to search what she want in her life, search for something she hasn't found yet. She teach her friend in Italy how to enjoy this life, eat what you want and enjoy the delicous food, no need to have a diet, if you become more fat, just buy a new bigger jeans. Simple like that. 

Most people like Bali's part, because she is falling in love there in a lovely place, beautiful scenery. For me, because i'm different and i often like something different from others. I like India part most. Why? It's the hardest part of her. She is finding the meaning of God and having a recovery there, learn to let go everything and everyone that makes suffer in her life. Trying to let go and begin a new life, a life that more meaningful and more shining. She find her life more balance.

Bali, is a romantic island and it's really contribute to anything about love. Falling in love in Bali, it's not weird thing. So does Liz Gilbert. She find a man from Brazil there. Of course, she is worry, unsure or maybe such a kind of trauma. She is afraid that love will make her life unbalance again. But one sentence make her realize, "To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life."

It's a happy ending.. That's all moviegoers want right? Finally Liz Gilbert find her life's meaning, her spiritual life, and her love. It's not the end i think, it's a beginning. "Attraversiamo!" which means "Let's cross!"