Letting Go Quotes - Page 18

• You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

  Michael Shannon

  Meaningful, Knows

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• I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.

  James Garner

  Meaningful, Country, Home

  "Fictional character: Lt. Commander Charles Edward Madison". "The Americanization of Emily", 1964.

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• There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

  Morris West

  Hands, Want, Clinging

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• I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

  Nick Rhodes

  Trust, Ideas, People

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• I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

  Fred Ward

  Sex, Growing Up, Talking

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• . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

  Laozi

  Knowing, Knives, Mind

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

  Albert Einstein

  Work, Goodness, Universe

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.334, Princeton University Press

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• You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Love, Mean, Dwelling

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• They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

  Publilius Syrus

  Hands, Wind, Sea

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• The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

  Nhat Hanh

  Joy, Mindfulness, Ease

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.76, Harmony

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• What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

  Joyce Meyer (2008). “Be Anxious for Nothing: The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in God”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Luxury, Comfort, Littles

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• He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ... Pi understood this need to hold on. To let let go of his pain. It had become such a part of him. Who would he be without it? The thought frightened him. So he wandered the halls of the catacombs like the other souls who were half-dead and half-alive.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Pain, Voice, Soul

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• Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survives.

  Veronica Chambers

  Stars, Loss, Night

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• Love does not come on schedule or on time. It comes unexpected, it comes unplanned. Do not shut your doors on love just because you've been hurt before. Let go of the need to be loved. Just be loving. Others will be able to see how loving and lovable you are when you express it

  Rita Zahara

  Hurt, Doors, Doe

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• When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

  Arthur Wallis

  Heart, Mean, Men

  Arthur Wallis (2011). “God's Chosen Fast: A Spiritual and Practical Guide to Fasting”, p.54, CLC Publications

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• I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

  Chris Cornell

  Rocks, Guitar, Singing

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

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Lost Things, Can't Let Go, Humans

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• The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

  Ezra Pound

  Country, Children, Writing

  "Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry".

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• I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

  Heidi Klum

  Reading, Baking

  "Heidi Klum on Why She's So Happy!". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. June 27, 2011.

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• We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

  Mary Robinson

  Government, Looks, Hook

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• We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’

  Johnny Weir

  Army, March, Idiot

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• If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

  Yao Ming

  Motivational, Learning, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wise, Mean, Caring

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.8, Sounds True

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• When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

  Dennis Merzel

  Morning, Stars, Flower

  Dennis Genpo Merzel (1991). “The Eye Never Sleeps: Striking to the Heart of Zen”, Shambhala Publications

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