Baggage Quotes

• I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.

  Dana Delany

  Kids, Creating, Doors

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• Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Simple, Journey

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.

  Patrick Read Johnson

  Moving, Phases, Ifs

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• Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Responsibility, Choices

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.73, Random House

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• Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

  Ha Jin

  Journey, Life Is A Journey, Life Is

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• A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

  John Hancock

  Attitude, Liberty, Pieces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

  Laozi

  Past, Emotion, New Earth

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• It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Dark, Self

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• I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Thinking, Light

  "Growing into grace". Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. March 5, 2008.

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• Whatever baggage you have, use it. Conquer it. Don’t let it stop you.

  Sara Shepard

  Use, Conquer

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• To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

  John C. Maxwell

  Single, Hurt, Moving

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.78, Harper Collins

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• Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.

  Gary Zukav

  Mean

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 25, 2012

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• For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with a manual about how to get it all right. We are ultimately a product of our biology and environment. Consequently, I choose to be compassionate with others when I consider how much painful emotional baggage we are biologically programmed to carry around. I recognize that mistakes will be made, but this does not mean that I need to either victimize myself or take your actions and mistakes personally. Your stuff is your stuff, and my stuff is my stuff.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Mistake, Mean, Emotional

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.156, Penguin

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• Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

  Wally Amos

  Simple, Journey, Easier

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• What's our baggage? Only vows,
  Happiness, and all our care,
  And the flower that sweetly shows
  Nestling lightly in your hair.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Flower, Hair

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In life, when the baggage gets too heavy, you have to put it down.

  Nikki Sixx

  Heavy

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• If you can't handle the baggage, you'll have to get out of the baggage room.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Rooms, Handle

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• Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Journey, Elephants

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

  August Strindberg

  Travel, Memories, Car

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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• I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Thinking, Excess Baggage

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• The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

  Sue Augustine

  Struggle, Journey, Healthy

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.18, Harvest House Publishers

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• Forgiveness is not a moral issue.
  It is an energy dynamic...
  Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.
  When you choose not to forgive,
  the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.
  When you choose not to forgive,
  it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything,
  and it is you who are forced every day
  to look at life through those contaminated lenses
  because you have chosen to keep them.

  Gary Zukav

  Forgiveness, Mean, Dark

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• In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

  William Congreve

  Believe, Suffering, Criticism

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 1, sc. 1

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• One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Character, Player

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• The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage.

  Peggy Ryan

  Humorous, Weight, Way

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