Best letting-go & children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

People World Believe Kind Children Two Reason Choices Father Poor Break Needed Letting Go Desperate Sheep Child Of God Needed Love

Book:Far North

Source: Far North

“Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of egolessness, the world won't disappear, as you may think it will. The world will continue, but a change takes place within you. Something is uncovered. You start seeing everything with the wonder and innocence of a child.”

Thinking World May Children States Wonder Seeing Letting Go Ego Insight Disappear Likes Innocence Within You

Book:Awaken Children Vol. 8

Source: Awaken Children Vol. 8

“Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.”

Looks Children Honor Letting Go Glory Remains Lays Reputation Celebrate Vanity Arrogance Individualism Glory Of God Lowliness

Book:God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Source: God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”

“The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes seriousand studious at six all seem to surprise their parents. It is difficult to let go of one's image of a child, say goodbye to the child a parent knows, and get accustomed to this slightly new child inhabiting the known child's body.”

Knows Children Two Body Seems Parent Difficult Known Four Baby Quiet Letting Go Six Surprise Calm Goodbye Temper Accustomed Infant Saying Goodbye Tantrums Studious Temper Tantrums Wild Child

Author:Ellen Galinsky

“I love it when I meet a woman who was poor as a child and maybe had an abusive family, and broke out and found the one and they're married with a very healthy home and children, and they've let go of regret and their past and decided to embrace their journey and what that stands for.”

Children Home Past Found Poor Journey Regret Healthy Letting Go Married Decided Embrace Broke Abusive Found The One

Author:Abbie Cornish

“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.”

Children Ends Values Process Realizing Letting Go Appreciate Transformation Passing Passings Attachment Passing On

Author:Andy Serkis

“In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made into a film. In the case of The German Doctor I had published the novel a year before I started writing the script, I even had another project to shoot. But I had this idea of the powerful cinematic language from the novel that I couldn't let go of.”

Writing Years Children Made Ideas Film Language Powerful Cases Novel Written Letting Go Projects Doctors Scripts Fishes Cinematic Pez

Author:Lucia Puenzo

“Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.”

Men Want Children Responsibility Talent Gay Letting Go Ideals Blame Smoke Weed Blame Me Smoke Weed I Smoke Weed

Author:George Michael

“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”

Children Wisdom Action Letting Go Self Improvement Deeds Mars Good Deeds

Author:Victor Hugo

“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.”

Children Moving Parent Letting Go Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Mitch Albom

“Children are way more articulate, way more connected to their rights, and they want to be fully participating, empowered members of society but we have to release and we have to let go. We have to allow children to enter their self-governance and their state of empowered presence.”

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Author:Shefali Tsabary

“Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.”

Giving Firsts Children Book Home Given Talking Havens Birth Letting Go Our Children Your Children Publishing Giving Birth

Author:Alejandro Zambra

“I think it's a confusing, tough thing. I mean, I can imagine in this situation. Being a single dad myself now and trying to do the right thing in your children's eyes and in the eyes of your friends and family and all that and then at the other end of the spectrum, you're also trying to date and you want to be yourself and you want to let go.”

“I love the roles that I'm having the chance to play, and I've learned to just let go a little. Children teach you that, every day. Life is large, so do the best you can and move on. Do everything you can in a given day, and then let it go.”

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Author:Ann Dowd

“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven

“Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.”

Children Moments Hands Might Wanted Mother Perfect Husband Letting Go Accustomed Perfect Child Dollhouses

Author:Jodi Picoult

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

People Knows Children Teach Letting Go Tenacity Balloons Small Child Time To Let Go

Author:Terry Pratchett

“She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.”

Knows Firsts Children Moments Mother Know How Battle Letting Go Decided Parenthood Epic Reins Epic Battle

Book:Night Road

Source: Night Road

“All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, you’ll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect. That place is called freedom. It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .”

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Author:Richard Rohr

“You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.”

“The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.”

Giving Children Has Beens I Can Letting Go Giving Up Beats Negative Perseverance Stubborn Don't Give Up Stubbornness

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.”

Needs Mind Heart Children Whole Three Judging Letting Go Release Three Things

Book:The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul

Source: The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul

“Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.”

“I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; ye must needs have it: all other things, as houses, lands, children, husband, friends, country, credit, health, wealth, honour, may be wanted ; but heaven is your one thing necessary, the good part that shall not be taken from you. See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy; for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory; many are lying dead by the way, that were slain with security.”

“Today I am amazed at the things our children have done and their wide range of interests. They are all living their lives and not the ones I would have planned for them. But I have learned that their lives are theirs, not mine, and in living their own lives they have given me experiences and an education I would never have had if I'd been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.”

Ifs Should Children Done Enough Today Given Interest Mines Fool Letting Go Our Children Wide Range I Have Learned Amazed

Author:Bernie Siegel

“It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.”

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Author:Tim Wynne-Jones

“This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?”

Ifs Life Children Wealth Fool Letting Go Claims My Children Preoccupation

Author:Gautama Buddha

“It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what's bad and it's really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term 'born again.' That truly describes freethinkers who've thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!”

“As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...”

Children Important Moments Hands Past Spiritual Enjoy Forget Our Lives Solitude Quiet Letting Go Ambition Eating Our Children Rose Speed Relax Present Moment Cheeks Scent Strawberries

Book:The Wonder of Boys

Source: The Wonder of Boys

“Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.”

Children Imagination Childhood Letting Go Catching Never Let Go

Author:J. B. Priestley

“As we heal, the Earth Mother feels our joy. We are like cells in and on her body. The power of love, the power of healing, the power of compassion, the power of unity, and the power of knowing are our abilities. These are the gifts our Earth Mother seeks to share with us at this time. Through reconnecting to the celebration of life we are able to let go of our grief and fear. When we Walk in Beauty, we acknowledge every aspect of the Self. The Power Places of our planet are those that have seen the joy of our Earth Mother when her children have grown toward wholeness, celebrating life.”

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