Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes about Letting Go

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At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Being Happy, Letting Go, Beautiful Life

Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Letting Go, Past, Joy

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Beautiful, Letting Go, Eat Pray And Love

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.176, A&C Black

And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Beautiful, Letting Go, Dark

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.113, A&C Black

I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks. First in English. Then in Italian. And then - just to get the point across - in Sanskrit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Letting Go, Prayer, Italian

Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing