Change & Transformation: Letting Go Quotes

"So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments, but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self"

Bede Griffiths, Clergyman

"A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really"

Julian Clary, Comedian

"This is the moment, this is the day, when I send all my doubts and demons on their way"

Josh Groban, Musician

"Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge"

Janet Fitch, Author

"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date"

Roger von Oech, Writer

"I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow"

Robbie Williams, Musician

"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer"

Shunryu Suzuki, Leader

"As human beings, we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again"

Ricky Williams, Athlete

"My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the West"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"With so much at stake, maybe I'll just leave now"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me"

Lorna Luft, Actress

"Get it out of your historic head"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"Phish has run its course, and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end"

Jennifer Connelly, Actress

"There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go"

Charlotte Church, Musician

"I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name"

Adela Florence Nicolson, Poet

"I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away"

Christine McVie, Musician

"The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster"

Elizabeth Bishop, Poet

"Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live"

Haruki Murakami, Writer

"It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry"

Stella McCartney, Designer

"It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about"

Richard Ford, Author

"I don't go around regretting things that don't happen"

Virgil Thomson, Composer

"Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go"

Kate Winslet, Actress

"I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way"

Viggo Mortensen, Actor

"I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable"

Robin Trower, Musician

"I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"There's something about a catharsis that is very important"

Glenn Close, Actress

"There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust"

Margery Allingham, Writer

"All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone"

Richard von Weizsaecker, Politician

"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions"

Peace Pilgrim, Activist

"Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to, in two years, have hindsight and say I made a big mistake"

Vince Gill, Musician

"There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said"

Robbie Williams, Musician

"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam"

Kate Moss, Model

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