Change & Transformation: Letting Go Quotes

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"Ironically, it is not until we are prepared to let go of something that we can really enjoy it"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"It is all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then"

Richard Armour, Poet

"When you choose not to take action on something because you realize you have no control, this is letting go"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Just as you choose to get up every day, go to your job, and drive the same car, you decide how much of an impact your past has on you - today"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"If you want to grow, you must learn to let go"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"In order to grow, you must learn to let go and strive toward something greater"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"In the maxim of the past, you cannot go anywhere"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"I'm not going to worry about anything that is beyond my control"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past"

Walker Percy, Writer

"Whatever you want too much, you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less"

Joel Rosenberg, Author

"LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go"

Mary Oliver, Poet

"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex"

John Osborne, Playwright

"There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"You don't have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"That's all there is; there isn't any more"

Ethel Barrymore, Actress

"The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time"

Don Henley, Musician

"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment, and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge"

Don Henley, Musician

"I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by"

Lenny Wilkens

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"It would be nice to really shed the corsets"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

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