Change & Transformation: Letting Go Quotes

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"If it is, it is, if it's not, it's not"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

Ziggy Marley

"I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... What can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can"

Joe Namath, Athlete

Joe Namath

"The next time you have a thought... Let it go"

Ron White, Comedian

Ron White

"You can't make people respond"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

Arthur Boyd

"Accept loss forever"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"The moon is brighter since the barn burned"

Matsuo Basho, Poet

"In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued"

Shawn Johnson, Athlete

Shawn Johnson

"A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life"

Luis Bunuel, Director

"There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter"

Duke Ellington, Musician

Duke Ellington

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not"

Xenophon, Soldier

Xenophon

"Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it"

Al Stewart, Musician

"The logs of wood which move down the river together are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting should not be the cause of misery"

Nagarjuna, Philosopher

Nagarjuna

"Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it"

Trey Parker, Artist

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer"

Brian Welch, Musician

"I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding"

Mary Chesnut, Author

Mary Chesnut

"I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today"

Dawn Fraser, Athlete

Dawn Fraser

"Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future"

Louise J. Kaplan, Psychoanalyst

"When it stops being fun, stop"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends"

Tom Cruise, Actor

Tom Cruise

"By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It's awful. Goodnight"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Your successful past will block your visions of the future"

Joel A. Barker, Author

Joel A. Barker

"It's no use crying over spilt summits"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"Take what you can use and let the rest go by"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"In order to go on living, one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

"And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary"

Erykah Badu, Musician

Erykah Badu

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back"

Mick Jagger, Musician

Mick Jagger

"I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs"

Mick Jagger, Musician

Mick Jagger

"Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

Roy T. Bennett

"What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude"

V. S. Naipaul, Novelist

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