Change & Transformation: Letting Go Quotes

Ian Botham, Athlete

"After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be"

Christie Brinkley, Model

"At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy"

Hilary Duff, Actress

"Every day I shall put my papers in order, and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day"

Etty Hillesum, Lawyer

"As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves"

Rowan Williams, Theologian

"Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?"

Frederick C. Frieseke, Painter

"Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can"

John Phillips, Musician

"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody"

Daniel Craig, Actor

"I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore"

Carrie Fisher, Actress

"Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"The key to change... is to let go of fear"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career"

Tommy Kirk, Actor

"I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"People either leave or they stay"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

"And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned"

Lynn Redgrave, Actress

"I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past"

John Cale, Musician

"And I kind of said to myself, if I get my voice back, I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"I finally said, 'I can't live being carried by this wake'"

Marla Maples, Actress

"If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime"

Mandy Moore, Musician

"I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy"

Randy Harrison, Actor

"When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing"

Will Arnett, Actor

"Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show"

Will Arnett, Actor

"I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either"

William Petersen, Actor

"If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go"

Faith Hill, Musician

"I gave up shame, a long time ago"

John Lithgow, Actor

"I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"I don't really want to do topless stuff anymore"

Katie Price, Model

"Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard"

Leo Kottke, Musician

"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance"

Boy George, Musician

"It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end"

Barry Gibb, Musician

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