Can't Let Go Quotes - Page 2

• Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

  Shinjo Ito

  Moving On, Letting Go, Ignorance

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.94

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• Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Letting Go, Past, Sometimes

  Gail Tsukiyama (2008). “The Samurai's Garden: A Novel”, p.130, Macmillan

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• No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right back into reality that, "Hey man, whatever you're dealing with, if it's heavy on your heart and head, you're gonna have to let that go, because there, some people are dealing with unavoidable situations that they can't let go." And then they eventually let those go, so, I mean, that's helpful.

  Chuck D

  Letting Go, Mean, Heart

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Letting Go, Long, Rehab

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Letting Go, Moving, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Letting Go, Wrestling, Blue

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.167, Macmillan

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• I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

  Mariah Carey

  Letting Go, Dream, Ambition

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• Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can’t let go of the past.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Letting Go, Memories, Cutting

  "Laurie Halse Anderson Thinks Adults Should Be Reading More YA". Interview with Krystie Lee Yandoli, www.buzzfeed.com.

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• It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.

  Kate Elliott

  Letting Go, Pride, Vanity

  Kate Elliott (2009). “Traitors' Gate”, p.877, Macmillan

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• What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Letting Go, Lost Things, Can't Let Go

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• What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on? You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can't let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.

  Bernie Siegel

  Letting Go, Feelings, Mind

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• The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

  Michael Patrick King

  Letting Go, Mean, Writing

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• If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

  Terry Brooks

  Letting Go, Writing, Sight

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.165, Del Rey

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• Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.

  Ginni Rometty

  Letting Go, Moving On Love, Can't Let Go

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

  Emma Goldman

  Letting Go, Eye, Heart

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• Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Letting Go, Fall, People

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, would you be willing to acknowledge it as a lie? Even if you feel you can't let go of it right this moment, would you lift it before Him-perhaps literally lifting your fisted hand as a symbol-and confess it as an idol? God does not condemn you. He calls you.

  Beth Moore

  Letting Go, Lying, Hands

  Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender”, p.69, B&H Publishing Group

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• I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven. I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Letting Go, Hurt, Prayer

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• Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

  Simon Sinek

  Letting Go, Want, Kind

  "Live For The Future: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Letting Go, Trying, Quality

  "Fears of a clown" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

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• Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.

  Mariah Carey

  Letting Go, Dream, Fall

  Song: Can't Let Go, Album: Emotions, 1991

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• Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.

  Clara Hughes

  Sports, Letting Go, Strong

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• He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

  William J. Clinton

  Letting Go, Peace, Hate

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• If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

  Kirk Gibson

  Letting Go, Emotional, Frustrated

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• The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.

  Jackson Browne

  Letting Go, Sweet, Peace

  Song: For America, 1986

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