Change & Transformation: Letting Go Quotes

"I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it"

Nick Rhodes, Musician

"I tend not to look back. It's confusing"

Walter Hill, Director

"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"It will be difficult to let go, but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it, we bring misery to ourselves and others"

Beatrice Potter Webb, Sociologist

"Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness, that's where they stay"

Libby Houston, Poet

"There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here"

Taylor Lautner, Actor

"I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away"

Louise Brooks, Actress

"I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly"

Mary Garden

"You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it"

Les Claypool, Musician

"I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with"

Fred Ward, Actor

"You are attached to what you attack"

Robert Shea, Author

"If you don't know by now, you're never going to know"

Jermaine Dupri, Musician

"You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me"

Anthony Kiedis, Musician

"I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?"

Amy Grant, Musician

"I have learned to not worry about things I can't control"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first"

Joe Henderson, Athlete

"I was not fighting myself at all as I used to"

Daniela Hantuchova, Athlete

"And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought"

Jeremy Piven, Actor

"In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels"

Dennis Franz, Actor

"I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice!"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker"

George Eads, Actor

"I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better!"

Glenda Jackson, Actress

"I'm ready to work, and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine"

Donna Summer, Musician

"You cannot get ahead while you are getting even"

Dick Armey, Politician

"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it"

Diana Wynne Jones, Writer

"Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone"

Charles Van Doren, Celebrity

"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"An apology might help, but you can change your life without one"

Robin Quivers, Celebrity

"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy, loving person, because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt, and keep coming back to haunt you"

Boris Kodjoe, Actor

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