EAT PRAY LOVE [2010]

Let Yourself Go

Ketut, palm reading: You are a world traveler.

You will live a long time.

Have many friends, many experiences.

You will have 2 marriages. One long, one short.

Liz: Am I in the long one or the short one?

Ketut: Can't tell.

Also, you will lose all your money. I think in next 6 to 10 months.

Don't worry, you will get it all back again.

And you will come back to Bali and live here for 3 or 4 months and teach me English.

Keep grounded, so it's like you have 4 legs.

That way, you can stay in this world.

Also, no looking at world through your head. 

Look through your heart, instead.

That way, you will know God.

~Ketut Liyer

Liz, having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face.

You knid of wanna be fully committed.

~Delia Shiraz

Hello, God. Nice to finally meet you.

I am sorry I've never spoken directly to you before, 

but I hope I've expressed my ample gratitude for all the blessings you've given to me in my life.

I'm in serious trouble.

I don't know what to do.

I need an answer.

Please, tell me waht to do.

Oh, God, help me please.

Tell me what to do and I'll do it.

~Liz, praying

Stephen: You have screwed up my life.

But what I wanna know is why couldn't you find yourself in our marriage?

Why didn't you say what you were thinking?

Liz: I did. You never listened to me.

Stephen: No!

You never said, 'Hey, you know what? You suck! I'm deeply unhappy!'

You just took off!

You never gave me a chance to address those problems!

That's not fair! That's just quitting!

I took vows. Till death. And I take them seriously.

I believe this is just a phase and I'm willing to wait it out.

Liz: You are always waiting, Stephen.

Waiting for me to come home, to wanna have kids, to make you some great dinner.

I don't know why we can't accept that we don't wanna live in unhappiness anymore?

Stephen: I accept the fact that I am ocassionally unreliable and I often get side tracked,

but I thought you like that about me.

I thought it was okay that I had hopes and dreams.

Liz: Have a dram, Stephen, great, fine! Do that!

Just pick one!

Stephen: Okay, I pick one. I pick you!

Liz: Do you know what I felt when I woke up, Delia?

Nothing!

No passion, no spark, no faith, no heat, absolutely nothing!

I've gotten past the point where I can be calling this a bad moment.

And it just terrifies me.

Jesus, this is like worse than death to me,

the idea that this is the person I'm gonna be from now on?

Delia: This happens to people.

They fall in love in their 20's, get married,

do the granite counter, white-picket fence in their 30's,

and somewhere they realize 'this is not for me'.

So they fail and they fall down, they hurt like hell, 

they straighten up and march their asses to the shrink's office.

They can't just check out.

Liz: I am not checking out! 

I need to change.

Delia: You have a support system here, Liz.

You have friends and family who love you.

Liz: And do you feel my love? For you?

My support for you?

No! There's like nothing!

I have no pulse!

You wanna know how to be here?

Stop constantly waiting for something.

~David

There is a wonderful old Italian joke 

about a poor man who goes to church every day and pray before the statue of a great saint,

begging: "Dear Saint, please please please, let me win the lottery."

Finally, the exasperated statue comes to life and looks down at the begging man and says,

"My son, please please please buy a ticket"

~Liz Gilbert

No strange man spending the night.

You American girls when you come to Italy all you want is pasta and sausage.

~Landlady

He says, you can't learn Italian like this.

You don't speak the language just with your mouth.

Speak it with your hands.

~Giovanni, translating the barber

Sofi: So, what's your word, Liz? I'm curious. I can't figure it out.

Liz: It might be...

It started as 'daughter', I was good at that.

And then 'wife', not so good.

'Girlfriend', not so good.

My word's... writer.

Giulio: Yeah, but that's what you do.

That isn't who you are, no?

Sofi: Maybe you're a woman in search of her word.

Ruin is a gift.

Ruin is a road to transformation.

~Liz Gilbert

Richard: Why'd you come here?

Liz: I just want some peace.

Richard: Peace?

You wanna get to the castle, Groceries, you got to swim the moat.

Richard: You have to learn to select your thoughts the way you select your clothes every day.

That's a power you can cultivate.

You wanna come here and control your life so bad, work on the mind.

That's the only thing you should control.

If you can't master your thoughts, you're in trouble.

Liz: I am trying.

Richard: Yeah, hello, that's the damn problem. Stop trying!

Surrender...

Go out into the garden and just sit there and still your mind and you watch what happens.

Why don't you just let it be?

If you could clear out all that space in your mind that you're using to obsess over this guy and your failed marriage, you'd have a vacuum with a doorway.

And you know what the universe would do with that doorway?

Boom! Rush in! God would rush in!

Fill you with more love that you ever dreamed of, Groceries.

I think you have the capacity someday to love the whole world.

~Richard

Richard: You're gonna stay here till you forgave yourself, you hear me?

Everything else will take care of itself.

Liz: Is this where you forgave yourself?

Richard: I'm trying, Elizabeth, I am trying.

Liz: I did love you, Stephen.

Stephen: I know. But I still love you.

Liz: So love me.

Stephen: But I miss you.

Liz: So miss me.

Send me love and light every time you think of me, then drop it.

It won't last forever.

Nothing does.

Believe in love again.

~Richard

People in Bali understand, 

in order to stay happy, must always know where you are every moment.

Right here is perfect balance.

Right at meeting of heaven and earth.

Not too much God, not too much selfish.

Otherwise, life too crazy.

You lose balance, you lose power.

~Ketut Liyer

Smile with face.

Smile with mind.

Even smile in liver.

~Ketut Liyer

Ketut, palm reading: You are a world traveler.

Liz: He says that to everyone.

Ketut: Already make your money.

You don't have young-man ambition.

Felipe, glance to Liz: He's good.

Ketut: You have 3 children.

Felipe: Two. That's a callous. [everyone's laughing]

Ketut: And you have divorce. Very difficult.

You loved her very much.

You haven't healed that wound.

Now you are scared to open your heart.

You are afraid hurt will happen to you again.

Only way to heal is to trust.

This okay.

To have broken heart mean you have tried for something.

Felipe: Is it going to be broken again?

Nyoman, passing by: He's a good man, Liz. You need a good man.

Liz, rolling her eyes: Thank you.

Ketut: True. Ketut knows.

Liz: I am so sick of people telling me I need a man.

Felipe: You don't need a man, Liz. You need a champion.

Leon: So have you slept with her yet?

Felipe: What was that?

Leon: Have you slept with her yet?

Felipe: Crossing the line...

Leon: Dad, it's been 10 years. It's time.

When I was in Italy, I learned a word.

"Tutti", which in Italian means "Everybody".

So that's the lesson, isn't it?

When you set out in the world to help yourself, sometimes you end up helping... Tutti.

~Liz Gilbert

I have the same fears, I have the same scars that you have, and I showed them to you.

But I guess the only difference between you and I is that, you are afraid to love again.

~Felipe

Okay, the balance thing.

You traveled around the world to find your balance.

And the balance that you think you've found is what?

Meditating for 20 minutes and going to see an old medicine man?

Listen, balance, my darling, 

balance is not letting anybody love you less than you love yourself.

~Felipe

I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself.

~Liz Gilbert

Ketut: You still smile with your liver, like I tell you?

Liz: Yes.

Ketut: You still meditate like your guru in India teach you?

Liz: Yes.

Ketut: You happy now with God?

Liz: Yes.

Ketut: You love your boyfriend?

Liz: I ended it.

Ketut: Don't understand. Why you do that?

Liz: I couldn't keep my balance.

Ketut: Liss, listen to Ketut.

Sometimes to lose balance for love is part of living balanced life.

In the end, I've come to believe in something I call "The Physics of the Quest." 

A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. 

The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: 

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, 

which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, 

and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, 

and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue 

and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher 

and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, 

then the truth will not be withheld from you.

~Liz Gilbert

***** 

LETTERS TO JULIET [2010]

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told... 

Is Your Own

Sophie: My name is Sophie. 

I just... I followed you, and I saw that you put the letters into a basket and I just wondered why.

Isabella: Why? Come, I show you.

[walk to the window and notice some women walk on the street]

They come from all over the world every day.

Sophie: But, taking their letters? Is that not like taking pennies from a wishing well?

Isabella: How else can we give them answers?

Sophie: Oh my God. So you write all of them back.

Isabella: Yes...

Sophie: You're all Juliet.

Isabella: Her secretaries.

Donatella has been married 51 years to the same man.

She handles husband problems.

Donatella: Husbands are like wine. They take a long time to mature.

Isabella: Francesca is a nurse. She deals with illness and loss.

And Maria... [sighs]

Maria: Why do you always sigh when you say my name?

Isabella: She has 12 children, 29 garndchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren.

She writes whatever she likes.

Sophie: And you?

Francesca: Isabella answers the ones you can barely read. [handed a letter to Sophie]

Isabella: Yeah, the lovers' quarrels, the breakups, the really tangled hearts.

Someone has to do it.

Charlie: May I ask, which one of you wrote this letter to my grandmother, Claire Smith?

Sophie: I wrote that. And I can't believe that it found you.

Charlie: Yes, we Brits tend to stay in our family homes.

Sophie: Yeah, this is amazing. It's less than a week since I mailed it.

Charlie: It was a very thoughtful letter.

Now, what were you thinking?

Sophie: I was thinking that she deserved an answer.

Charlie: Yeah, 50 years ago, maybe. Not now!

Sophie: I'm sorry, I didn't know true love had an expiration date.

Charlie: True love? Are you joking?

Could you imagine what would've happened if she hadn't seen sense?

Sophie: Well yeah, you wouldn't be here and that would be an upside.

Charlie: What are you doing here anyway?

Are you some lonely American girl who has to live vicarously through others?

Sophie: I'm not lonely, I'm engaged.

Charlie: Hmph, my condolences to the groom.

Sophie, following Charlie: Excuse me! So that's it?

You've come all the way from London to give me a lecture?

Charlie: No, I came because I couldn't let my grandmother come on her own.

Sophie: Oh my God, that's awesome! She's come to find her Lorenzo!

Charlie, stopped walking: Awesome? [smirking]

And if Lorenzo doesn't want to see her, has forgotten her, is gravely ill or dead,

let's say, just for fun, then what?

[Sophie couldn't answer]

Thought so!

Sophie: So you must feel like you're about to find your long lost soulmate.

Claire: Yes.

Charlie: Her soulmate was my grandfather.

Let's not invalidate my entire existence.

[after Claire knocks the door]

Charlie: What if the wife answers and goes into a fit of jealous rage, Gran?

Claire: Well, I'd be flattered.

I'm more worried that he won't remember me.

If I found the love of my life, I wouldn't stand there like an idiot, whispering in a garden.

I would just grab her from that blasted balcony and be done with it.

~Charlie

Sophie: Do you believe in destiny?

Charlie: Do you?

Sophie: Yeah, I think so.

Sophie: Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move.

Charlie: Doubt truth be a liar, but never doubt I love.

Claire: I'm sorry I was late.

Lorenzo: No. When we're speaking about love, it's never too late.

Claire: I think you'll understand why I'm telling you you're a total idiot.

Charlie: Okay, then don't sugarcoat it, Gran.

Claire: I won't.

How many Sophies do you think there are on this planet?

Don't wait 50 years like I did.

Dear, Claire.

'What' and 'If' are 2 words as non-threatening as words can be.

But put them together, side by side, 

and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life.

'What if?'

I don't know how your story ended,

but if what you felt then was true love, then it's never too late.

If it was true then, why wouldn't  it be true now?

You need only the courage to follow your heart.

I don't know what a love like Juliet's feels like, 

a love to leave loved ones for, a love to cross oceans for,

but I'd like to believe, if I ever were to feel it, that I'd have the courage to seize it.

And Claire, if you didn't, I hope one day that you will.

All my love, Juliet

~Sophie's letter

Listen to me, very very carefully.

I live in London. A gorgeus, vibrant, historic city that I happen to love living in.

Yu live in New York, which is highly overrated.

But since the Atlantic Ocean is a bit wide to cross every day; swimming, boating or flying,

I suggest we flip for it.

And if those terms are unacceptable, leaving London will be a pleasure,

as long as you're waiting for me in the other side.

Because the truth is, Sophie, I am madly, deeply, truly, passionately in love with you.

~Charlie

*****

AVATAR [2009]

Enter the World

Out there beyond that fence, every little thing that crawls, flies or squats in the mud,

wants to kill you and eat your eyes for Jujubes.

We have an indigenous population of humanoids called The Na'vi.

They're fond of arrows dipped in a neurotoxin that'll stop your heart in 1 minute.

And they have bones reinforced with naturally occuring carbon fiber.

They are very hard to kill.

As head of security, it is my job to keep you alive.

I will not succeed, not with all of you.

If you wish to survive, you need to cultivate a strong mental attitude.

You've got to obey the rules, Pandora rules.

~Col. Miles Quaritch

Me and Norm are here to drive these remotely controlled bodies called avatars.

They're grown from human DNA mixed with the DNA of the natives.

~Jake Sully

The concept is that every driver is matched to his own avatar,

so that their nervous systems are in tune... or something.

Which is why they offered me the gig, because I can link with Tommy's avatar.

~Jake Sully

Jake: Is this right? I just say whatever to the video log?

Norm: Yeah. We gotta get in the habit of documenting everything.

What we see, what we feel.

It's all part of the science.

Dr. Max Patel: And good science is good observation.

Norm: Grace Augustine is a legend.

She's the head of the avatar programme.

She wrote the book, I mean, literally wrote the book on Pandoran botany.

Dr. Max Patel: That's because she likes plants better than people.

This is why we're here... Unobtanium.

Because this little gray rock sells for 20 million a kilo.

That's the only reason.

It's what pays for the whole party. It's what pays for your science.

Now, those savages are threatening our whole operation, we're on the brink of war,

and you're supposed to be finding a diplomatic solution.

So use what you've got and get me some results.

~Parker Selfridge

Grace: So you just figured you'd come out here, to the most hostile environment,

known to man with no training of any kind, and see how it went?

What was going through your head?

Jake: Maybe I was sick of doctors telling me what I coudn't do.

Col. Miles: Look, Sully, I want you to learn this savages from the inside.

I want you to gain their trust.

I need to know how to force their cooperation or hammer them hard if they won't.

Jake: Am I still with Augustine?

Col. Miles: On paper.

You walk like on of her science pukes, you quack like one, 

but you report to me.

Jake: If you love your little forest friends, why not let them just kill my ass?

What's the thinking?

Neytiri: Why save you?

Jake: Yeah, why save me?

Neytiri: You have a strong heart, no fear... but stupid!

Ignorant like a child!

Moat: What are you called?

Jake: Jake Sully.

Moat: Why did you come to us?

Jake: I came to learn.

Moat: We have tried to teach other Sky People.

It is hard to fill a cup which is already full.

Jake: Well, my cup is empty, trust me.

My daughter will teach you our ways.

Learn well, Jakesully.

Then we will see if your insanity can be cured.

~Moat

Neytiri: To become taronyu, hunter, 

you must choose your own ikran and he must choose you.

Jake: When?

Neytiri: When you are ready.

[after shot a prey]

I see you, brother, and thank you.

[stab it]

Your spirit goes with Eywa.

Your body stays behind to become part of The People.

~Jake Sully

Neytiri: Now you choose your ikran.

This you must feel inside.

If he also chooses you, move quick like I showed.

You will have one chance, Jake.

Jake: How will I know if he chooses me?

Neytiri: He will try to kill you.

Jake: Outstanding!

Neytiri: It is Toruk, Last Shadow.

May grandfather's garndfather was Toruk Macto, Rider of Last Shadow.

Jake: He rode this?

Neytiri: Toruk chose him. It has only happened 5 times since the time of The First Songs.

Everything is backwards now.

Like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.

~Jake Sully

The Na'vi say that every person is born twice.

The second time is when you earn your place among The People forever.

~Jake Sully

Neytiri: You are Omaticaya now.

You may make your bow from the wood of Hometree.

And you may choose a woman.

We have may fine women.

Ninat is the best singer.

Jake: But I don't want Ninat.

Neytiri: Peyral is a good hunter.

Jake: Yes, she is a good hunter.

But I've already chosen. But this woman must also choose me.

Neytiri: She already has.

Jake, pleads for Eywa: You chose me for something.

I will stand and fight, you know I will.

But I need a little help here.

Neytiri: Our Great Mother does not take sides, Jake.

She protects only the balance of life.

Jake: It was worth a try.

*****