Quotes by category:Letting Go

I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there.Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.

Amy Poehler

girl letting-go ideas

People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

Amy Tan

dream letting-go people

The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common than you'd think, is someone you want to avoid.

An Na

falling-in-love letting-go thinking

I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.

Ana Mulvoy-Ten

just-let-go letting-go thinking

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Anais Nin

letting-go love life

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Anais Nin

shackles thirsty letting-go

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Anais Nin

shackles thirsty letting-go

Someday without any reason dance in frenzy in total let go.

Anandmurti Gurumaa

someday dance letting-go

Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!

Andrea Gibson

verbs letting-go hands

Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.

Andrea Mitchell

dark letting-go heart

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.

Andrei Tarkovsky

artist letting-go ideas

The thing that concerns me more than anything is when anybody becomes closed off and exclusive of other people's ideas. All of our brains are in the same mode of searching when trying to understand reality, and when we come to a belief system that makes sense to us we hold it strongly, whether it's an atheist view, or a Christian view, or a Muslim view, whatever, then it's very hard to let go and I think it's so important to try to foster dialogue.

Andrew B. Newberg

atheist christian letting-go

Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?

Andrew Hargadon

letting-go ideas knowledge

I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

Andrew Sullivan

letting-go people thinking

As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers

André Aciman

opposites dream letting-go

Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx

Andy Biersack

taken letting-go fun

Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.

Andy Murray

sacrifice prayer letting-go

I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.

Andy Samberg

exciting letting-go kids

If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.

Andy Samberg

fart humanity letting-go

When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation.

Andy Serkis

attachment letting-go children