Change & Transformation: Letting Go Quotes

"I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal, possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing"

Gary Busey, Actor

"When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed"

Jane Fonda, Actress

"The hardest thing is at the end, you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings"

Dakota Fanning, Actress

"I was still interested in the youth rebellion, but never-the-less, I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment, realizing that it takes too much of your energy"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter"

Eileen Caddy, Celebrity

"It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas"

Alan Alda, Actor

"I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough"

Jerry West, Artist

"Make it a rule of life: never to regret, and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it, it's only good for wallowing in"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"Everyone, for the most part, is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"You have to make peace with life"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"It was good while it was good"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"All enchantments die; only cowards die with them"

Charles Morgan, Novelist

"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"I don't want to leave this place"

Bad Bunny, Musician

"I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it"

Sofia Vergara, Model

"I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!"

Nikki Sixx, Musician

"Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore"

Dennis Quaid, Actor

"This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest"

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Poet

"I must let go of my need for the world to love me"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more"

Trent Reznor, Musician

"I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds"

Hilary Duff, Actress

"Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"But what is past my help is past my care"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"I don't like looking back"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"The older I get, the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments"

Michael Landon, Actor

"Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on"

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Actress

"We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go"

Elliott Smith, Musician

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