Letting Go Quotes - Page 23

• I must let go of my need for the world to love me.

  Kenny Loggins

  Needs, World

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

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• If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Mind, Body, Way

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• Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

  Peter Zumthor

  Order, Care, Want

  "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.

  Adam Young

  Jesus, Eye, Compromise

  "Interview: Owl City's Adam Young and His God-Inspired Music". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. June 25, 2011.

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• 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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• Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, Midlife, Unraveling

  Brené Brown (2011). “불완전함의 선물”, Cheongha/ Tsai Fong Books

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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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• We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

  Gordon Livingston

  Art, Past, Self

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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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• To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

  Bodhidharma

  Giving Up, Regret, Charity

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Past, Opportunity

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• The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.

  Lester Levenson

  Real, Moving, Healing

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• The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals.

  Christiane Northrup

  Pain, Healing, Joy

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• Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

  Sue Thoele

  Patterns, Paradox, Periods

  Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.122, Conari Press

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• If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

  Charlene Li

  Thinking, Yield, Listening

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• Surrendering to change is always a leap of faith. For something new to enter your life, you have to let go of the past and join your immediate experience right now. The key is less in what you do than how connected you are in yourself as you do it. In life there is no predetermined path you should or have to walk; you lay down the path by how you take each step. This is one of life's greatest truths.

  Richard Moss

  Change, Past, Keys

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• Grief is love not wanting to let go.

  Earl A Grollman

  Grief

  Earl A. Grollman (2015). “Living with Loss, Healing with Hope: A Jewish Perspective”, p.5, Beacon Press

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• Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Feel Better, Feelings

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• By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

  Hal Elrod

  Pain, Emotional, Self

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 13, 2009

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• In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

  Barbara Hurd

  Dream, Home, Circles

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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