Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?

You can't love someone new without getting over the last one.

We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.

So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.