《美食，祈祷，恋爱》读后感100字

As a nonfiction reader, this book is out of my genre, so I was surprised that I absolutely enjoyed the book.
Some critics say that Gilbert was self-absorbing and full of her own feelings and emotions. I totally agree with that, but, since I can relate to all her feelings and emotions, I don't find them selfish, but rather spiritually enlightening.
Best read so far this year!

On Travel (very similar to my style)
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Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always 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 it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me. It can barf all over me if it wants to--I just don't care.
I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn’t anyone else around to talk to, I could probably make friends with a four-foot-tall pile of sheetrock. That is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left, “do you have friends there?’ and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, but I will.

On Life
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"There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? and Who's in charge? Everything else is somehow manageable. But these two questions of love and control undo us all, trip us up and cause war, grief and suffering."
"It's better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly."