Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

Chogyam Trungpa

In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

Eddie Izzard

There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity.

Cheryl Richardson

Let go of the need to control. Trust in the wisdom of a divine plan.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel that I've accomplished anything. I feel that it'll be better when I won't care as much, but it's so difficult to let go and accept all the wrong notes.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

Charlaine Harris

You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead.

Bob Ross

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

Bill Ayers

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

Bill Watterson

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Byron Katie

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

Camille Paglia

It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics.

Catherynne M. Valente

Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.

Deb Caletti

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

Deb Caletti

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

Diana Gabaldon

Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?" Aroused by my voice, he swayed alarmingly to one side, but caught himself on the edge of the mantelpiece. His eyes drifted around the room, then fixed on my face. For an instant, they blazed clear and pellucid with intelligence. "och, easy, Sassenach, If ye can stand up, you're not drunk." He let go of the mantelpiece, took a step toward me, and crumpled slowly onto the hearth, eyes blank, and a wide, sweet smile on his dreaming face.

Edna Ferber

celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.

Benjamin Franklin

As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

Bo Sanchez

Whenever you feel a negative emotion be alone in a room and just sit down with it and feel. Don't judge it, criticize it, intellectualize it, explain it away. Allow yourself to feel the pain. It's okay. Accompany it - breathe into it - and after a while, you'll feel the anger or fear or sadness lose it's urgency and power. Allow God to tenderly embrace you in your pain. And then, at the right time, you can let go.

Charley Pride

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

Charles Krauthammer

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.

Paul Reiser

Thanks for letting me be on the show with you,

Billy Wagner

Right now, we're very confident. We're not letting one loss turn into two.

Brian Tracy

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

Brenda Ueland

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Brad Pitt

Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!

Jane Green

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

C. S. Lewis

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Bryant H. McGill

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

Bryant H. McGill

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

Bryant H. McGill

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

Bryant H. McGill

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.