Change & Transformation: Letting Go Quotes

"I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes"

Kenny G, Musician

"I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time, but later, when you look at it, you didn't miss anything"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

"I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now"

Ricky Williams, Athlete

"Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?"

Letitia Landon, Poet

"We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us"

William Griffith Wilson, Celebrity

"I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go"

William Hurt, Actor

"One can be emptied out and be filled up"

Isabelle Adjani, Actress

"I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you!"

Wally Amos, Businessman

"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good"

Jude Law, Actor

"When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself"

Shunryu Suzuki, Leader

"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well"

Fred Frith, Composer

"I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love"

Tatum O'Neal, Actress

"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility"

Martin Puryear, Sculptor

"When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection"

Debra Messing, Actress

"I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, learn to accept that which you cannot change"

Ian Hart, Actor

"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, Writer

"Surrender had played out for good with me"

Jesse James, Criminal

"But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car, I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own"

Vincent Kartheiser, Actor

"I'd never choose to turn the clock back"

Geri Halliwell, Musician

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end"

Gilda Radner, Actress

"But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience"

Michael Shanks, Actor

"Surrender to the flow"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square"

Louise Bogan, Poet

"By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry"

Jack Dempsey, Athlete

"When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past"

Charles J. Givens, Businessman

"I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that"

Ali MacGraw, Actress

"Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it"

Brian Austin Green, Actor

"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"In fact, when Sweet Honey was ten years old, it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"When I look at the world, I see a place where beauty and pain coexist. A place where nothing is ever perfect but everything is always unfolding. A place where life is as much about what you let go of as what you hold on to"

Jada Pinkett Smith, Actress

"A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that"

Nancy Johnson, Politician

"You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime"

Jim Knight, Politician

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

Alice Barrett, Actress

"I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all"

Guy Finley, Writer

"Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"I refused to beat my head against stone, of course"

Herbert Lom, Actor

"The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew, as I did not, the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me"

Ida Tarbell, Journalist

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