Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alicia Keys

Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

Alice Sebold

Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go

Alice Munro

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

Alice Barrett

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

Anne Lamott

You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.

Annie Dillard

He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.

Anna Olson

Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

Anna Quindlen

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.

Andrew Hargadon

Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?

Amy Tan

People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

Anthony Bourdain

Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.

Andy Samberg

I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.

Andy Serkis

When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation.

Ann Patchett

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

Anais Nin

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Anais Nin

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Anne Fortier

If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?

Anne Hathaway

There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'

Anne Hathaway

If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.

Richard Bach

Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

Richard Bach

If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.

Richard Bach

I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

Richard Bach

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

Robert Fulghum

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

Robert Frost

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

Richard E. Byrd

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace.

Rene Redzepi

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

Thornton Wilder

The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.

Red Skelton

Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

T. D. Jakes

You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.

T. S. Eliot

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

Taylor Hanson

The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

Rashida Jones

I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.