Change & Transformation: Letting Go Quotes

"Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul"

Armand Hammer, Businessman

"It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?"

Mike Quade, Coach

"We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave - never encouraged to stay in"

Stephen Bennett

"I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done"

Riccardo Muti, Celebrity

"I don't much like looking back"

Walter Hill, Director

"To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you"

Steve Coogan, Comedian

"I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact"

Eric McCormack, Actor

"There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"I'm playing George quite a bit differently this season, and I'm glad you picked up on the fact that she kind of made peace with her situation at the end of last season"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives, it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with"

Charlotte Rampling, Actress

"The mill cannot grind with the water that is past"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control"

Aidan Quinn, Actor

"I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it"

Bai Ling, Actress

"You can't be a victim and heal"

A. J. Langer, Actress

"I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage, and then go about your life"

Patti LuPone, Musician

"Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain"

Anna Seward, Writer

"There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break"

Gary Gilmore, Criminal

"And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that"

Edie Falco, Actress

"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything"

Laurel Lee

"Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction"

Jean Dubuffet, Artist

"I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve"

Cynthia Nixon, Actress

"The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream"

Linda Ronstadt, Musician

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms"

Russel Honore, Soldier

"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it"

Georg Solti, Musician

"No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night"

Sally Stanford, Celebrity

"Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon"

Dominic West, Actor

"I was a complete loon, but I don't regret a bit of it"

Rhona Mitra, Actress

"I've sown all the oats I want to sow"

Stephanie Zimbalist, Actress

"I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened"

Mike Peters, Cartoonist

"I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character"

Sam Neill, Actor

"I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect"

Steve Carlton, Athlete

"Past is past"

Pete Waterman, Producer

"There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen"

Art Shell, Athlete

"You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did"

Alex Chilton, Musician

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