Letting Go Quotes - Page 33

• We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Greatness, Bitterness

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• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

  Phil Anselmo

  Song, Guitar, Jeans

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• When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let go of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God's love within me and around me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Years, Needs, Looks

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• Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Laughter, Real

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• And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

  Michael Neill

  Trying, Getting What You Want, Increase

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• I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.

  Lester Levenson

  Responsibility, Trying, Hell

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• Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

  William Mountford

  Heaven, Resignation

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.368

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• We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Order, Ideas

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Prayer, Giving Up, Doors

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• And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.

  Amy Bloom

  Memories, Grief, Self

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• When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

  Adyashanti

  Self, Whole, Universe

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• Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

  Peter Ralston

  Learning, Wish, Desire

  Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston (2011). “Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

  Monique Wittig

  Passion, Intelligence, Feels

  Monique Wittig (1987). “Across the Acheron”, Dufour Editions

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• Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Children, Vanity, Arrogance

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it.
  Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals.
  Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

  Li Cunxin

  Meaningful, Dream, Giving Up

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• Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Heart, Dark, Reality

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• The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!

  Faith Ringgold

  Running, Fear, Children

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• I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.

  Chris Pine

  Couple, Thinking, May

  "Chris Pine in Details: 'I think I'll be more like ... the George Clooney'" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2010.

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• If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

  Miranda July

  Wise, Trying, Why Not

  Miranda July (2015). “The First Bad Man”, p.189, Canongate Books

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• Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

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• I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there.Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Ideas, People

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• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  Natascha McElhone

  Ipods, Play, Mad

  "This much I know: Natascha McElhone". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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• I don't want to get too much into my personal relationships but I will say I am actually doing the single thing right now. I want someone that I can have fun with and laugh with. I love to laugh and I'm really sarcastic, so it's important that she can take a joke. I think if you are going to be with someone for a while you really need someone you can let loose with and let go of all the stress of the day.

  Matt Lanter

  Sarcastic, Fun, Stress

  "Five Questions with 90210's Matt Lanter". Interview with Colleen Moody, www.seventeen.com. October 2, 2009.

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• Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.

  Max Weiss

  Trying, Needs, Pace

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• Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Art, Business, Ideas

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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