Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes About Contentment

Quotes about: Contentment

• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fall, Fate, Odds

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

• 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

• I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Running, Years, Accomplishment

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.163, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Contentment, Heartbreaking, Inability

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

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