Change & Transformation: Letting Go Quotes

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"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago"

Robert Redford, Actor

Robert Redford

"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

Jack Nicholson

"I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

Jennifer Lopez

"Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present"

Chi Chi Rodriguez, Athlete

"I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life"

Jackie Chan, Actor

Jackie Chan

"The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"I have X'd myself from your world"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more"

Layne Staley, Musician

Layne Staley

"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done"

Mick Jagger, Musician

Mick Jagger

"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"Better by far you should forget and smile, that you should remember and be sad"

Christina Rossetti, Poet

Christina Rossetti

"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

Sanford I. Weill

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind"

Brian Eno, Musician

Brian Eno

"I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"With renunciation, life begins"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"Behind me, the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past"

Ernest Gaines, Writer

"Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow"

Ernest Gaines, Writer

"The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem"

Robert Anthony, Educator

"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

Amelia Barr

"The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"I was willing to accept what I couldn't change"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life, and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation"

Greg Norman, Athlete

Greg Norman

"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future"

David Gerrold, Writer

"I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition"

Tallulah Bankhead, Actress

"Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Don't waste your time away, thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

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