Letting Go Quotes - Page 33

• Sometimes, you just have to let go... and embrace what you've become.

  Adam Jensen

  Sometimes, Embrace

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• The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
  remain still and let God act and speak in you.

  Meister Eckhart

  Life Is, Speak, This Life

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• We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, Gods Will

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.217, Discovery House

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• You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Doors, Track

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• The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

  Mason Cooley

  Wedding, Boredom, Guests

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• When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.

  Jack Kornfield

  Past, Appreciate, Simplicity

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• The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Spring

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• Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love

  Garrison Keillor

  Rescue

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.129, Penguin

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• Don't let go of the vine.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Simplicity, Vines, Don't Let Go

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• I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

  William P. Young

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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• I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Art, Ideas

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• If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.

  B. C. Forbes

  War, Animal, Two

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• We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

  Laura Dave

  Forgiveness, Jobs, Forgiving

  Laura Dave (2008). “The Divorce Party: A Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Compassion, Long, Suffering

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

  Alan Watts

  Effort, Ego, Mind

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

  Life, Years, Essentials

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.8

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• My mind lets go a thousand things,
  Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Kings, War, Mind

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• When a miner looks at the rope that is to lower him into the deep mine, he may coolly say, "I have faith in that rope as well made and strong." But when he lays hold of it, and swings down by it into the tremendous chasm, then he is believing on the rope. Then he is trusting himself to the rope. It is not a mere opinion - it is an act. The miner lets go of every thing else, and bears his whole weight on those well braided strands of hemp. Now that is faith.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Strong, Believe, Swings

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 225, 1895.

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• When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Tutor, Thyself

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• There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness.
  We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Book, Learning, Caring

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• I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

  Sue Augustine

  Heartbroken, Hurt, Past

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.103, Harvest House Publishers

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• To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.

  John Heider

  Peace, Learning, True Power

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.33, Green Dragon Books

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• When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Focus

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• Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Eye, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.

  J. Cole

  Running, Dark, Years

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