Letting Go Quotes - Page 34

• The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

  Taylor Hanson

  Song, Falling In Love, Messages

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• By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Moving, Emotional, Should Have

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• Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Soul, Schedules, Fulfilled

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 16, 2015

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• Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Book, Tools, Scripts

  "'Hunger Games' Star Jennifer Lawrence Talks Playing Katniss Everdeen". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The hardest thing of love is to let go.

  Isabel Allende

  Love Is, Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• Life is full of all sorts of people. You just need to know which hands to shake, which hands to hold and which hands to let go.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Hands, People

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• Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness… so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better.

  Rita Zahara

  Hurt, Pain, Disappointment

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• The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.

  Gail Sheehy

  Self, Safety, Childhood

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

  Lester Levenson

  Happiness, Past, Want To Be Happy

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• Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective.

  James Hunter

  Leader, Forgiving, Able

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• When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Philip Carr-Gomm, Stephanie Carr-Gomm (1996). “The Druid Animal Oracle”, p.5, Connections Book Publishing

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• Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and death. And now I had to sink or swim. It was time to let go...and move on. Slowly, I pushed off from the dock that was Tucker Montgomery and prepared to swim...praying I wouldn't drown.

  Melissa Brown

  Father, Moving, Years

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• Learn to let go. You do it a little at a time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Learn To Let Go

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• If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Attitude, Understanding

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• I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.

  George Clooney

  Bills, Fine, Enjoy

  "Fantastic Mr Fox - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.

  Eric Hoffer

  Ideas, Society, Youth

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Return, Rich

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• Prosperity lets goe the bridle.

  George Herbert

  Prosperity

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

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• Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

  Gail Sheehy

  Creativity, Illumination, Editing

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• Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

  Livy

  Social, Abandoned, Existence

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• The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

  Kenny Loggins

  Running, Good Life, Agreement

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• It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about realizing what's true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Truth, Self

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• It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

  Yann Martel

  Important, Life Of Pi Book, Importance

  Marilyn Herbert, Yann Martel (2005). “Life of Pi”, p.62, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Sacrifice, Enemy, Ethics

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