Best letting-go & i-can Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this. I will triumph over you.”

Ifs World Firsts May I Can Real Whole Fantasy Comfort Letting Go First Time Built Independent Clarity Curious Triumph Over You Agony Numbness Vistas

Author:Julie Berry

“I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.”

Men I Can Self Hands Able Imagine Wonderful Letting Go Horrible Never Quit Horrible Things Oar Ruthlessness

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from negative to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.”

Needs Feels I Can Important Real Helping Energy Change Quality Environment Risk Letting Go Strive Help Me Negativity

Book:The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

Source: The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

“I always feel like I'm rehearsing. I'm a workaholic. But youve got to let go and trust and enjoy! I'm a real perfectionist. Its probably my biggest disadvantage. But as long as I can go out there, trust in the work and just have fun, thats what matters.”

Feels Long I Can Real Matter Fun Enjoy Letting Go Having Fun What Matters Disadvantages Perfectionist Workaholic Rehearsing Just Have Fun

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“I don't want to get too much into my personal relationships but I will say I am actually doing the single thing right now. I want someone that I can have fun with and laugh with. I love to laugh and I'm really sarcastic, so it's important that she can take a joke. I think if you are going to be with someone for a while you really need someone you can let loose with and let go of all the stress of the day.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs I Can Important Fun Laughing Too Much Right Now Letting Go Jokes Stress Having Fun Sarcastic Personal Relationships

Author:Matt Lanter

“The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something I make, the better.”

Mean I Can Forget Letting Go Embarrassed Anticipate

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.”

Should Long I Can Whole Body Might Moving Sides Space Rooms Emotional Terrible Letting Go Should Have Whole Life Pursuit Distraction Long Life Elusive Dieting Tracking

Author:Sallie Tisdale

“I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.”

People Thinking Way Want Writing Humans I Can Soul Jobs Space Creative Letting Go Reach Out Be Creative Creative Writing Human Soul

Author:William P. Young

“To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.”

Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

“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.”

I Can Letting Go Ecstasy Marvelous Can Not Thirsty Ordinary Life Intoxication Shackles Marvelous Things

Author:Anais Nin

“I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.”

People Thinking Way Want May I Can Facts Pain Dies Loss Love Is Letting Go Hardest Hardest Thing Wanting To Die

Author:Isabel Allende

“The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.”

Firsts Has Beens Made I Can Home Kids America Found Left Peace Known Land Sweet Letting Go Conscience Awake Land Of The Free Can't Let Go

Author:Jackson Browne

“We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.”

Writing I Can Company Records Letting Go Scary Frightening Email Corrections Record Companies Punctuation Never Let Go

Author:Chris Lowe

“I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy.”

Thinking I Can Reason Boys Ten Letting Go Dimes Never Let Go

Author:Mr. Krabs

“Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.”

Littles I Can Hours Powerful Half Meditation Source Dad Husband Letting Go Buddhist Baths Meditating Meditation Mind

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I live every day full of gratitude for the body in which I live, treating it with great love and respect. It allows me to enjoy life, experiencing everything that I perceive, exploring the events that hook my attention, modifying what I can change, and letting go of whatever I cannot.”

I Can Body Enjoy Attention Events Gratitude Letting Go Perceive Exploring Enjoy Life Hook Great Love Love And Respect Live Every Day Modifying Experiencing Everything

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.”

Long I Can Havens Letting Go Long Time Clean Cigarette Addict Tobacco Heroin Rehab Hardcore Can't Let Go

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“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 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.”

“Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.”

“He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to.”

Ifs May I Can Wanted Letting Go Can't Let Go

Author:Simone Elkeles

“Your trying to take them away from me, and I can't let you do that.I'm not ready to let go." "Exactly what am I taking away?" "My family." "Brenna..." She wouldn't let him continue. "You are trying to take them away, aren't you? And if you succeed, what will I have left?" "Me.”

Ifs Trying I Can Left Ready Succeed Letting Go My Family Not Ready

Book:The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“Jesus, take the wheel Take it from my hands 'Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus, take the wheel”

Giving I Can Hands Jesus Causes Chance My Own Letting Go Give Me Wheels Save Me

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and more qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.”

People Ifs I Can Different Hard Moving Values Decision Numbers Fields Letting Go Dare I Realized Decision Making Smarter Qualified

Author:Howard Schultz

“Tate grabbed me, hugging me so hard, I knew I'd have bruises. He was probably unaware of it, not having had much time to get used to his new strength. I pushed at him, "Tate...you're squeezing me too hard." He let go of me so fast I almost staggered. "Oh Christ, I can't do anything right!”

I Can Hard Used Christ Letting Go Hug Bruises Squeezing

Book:At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel

“shane:do we have a choice michael:dont think so shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go get eaten.at least then i can get some sleep”

Thinking I Can Choices Sleep Letting Go Tired Screws Shane

Author:Rachel Caine

“Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?”

People Needs Giving I Can Hands Beautiful Grace Letting Go Giving Up Cat Weak Gold Determined Roof Like Something Tin Beautiful People Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a hot tin roof. Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a hot tin roof. Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer

“I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.”

Knows Want Made I Can Hands Order Choices Letting Go Swim Forbidden Love

Book:Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

“I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven. I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.”

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

I Can Letting Go Ecstasy Marvelous Can Not Thirsty Ordinary Life Nonconformity Intoxication Shackles Marvelous Things Can't Let Go Letting Things Go Not Letting Go

Author:Anais Nin

“If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.”

Ifs Want Heart I Can Real Self Can Do Loses Mines Truth Is Offers Letting Go Glory Real Life True Self

Book:Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“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

“Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?”

Ifs I Can Asks Changed Letting Go Decided Response Bother What If Going Away

Book:The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“From now on, don't do this, even for me. We don't have an employer-employee relationship right now. I'm a person and you're a person. Why does it have to be so one-sided? Why do only women...Why only you, Yoo Kyeong, have to do things like that? 'So, I'll try to look good, in any way that I can.' Let go of such thoughts. When you're on TV, you look wonderful, full of confident. You shine.”

Way Trying Looks Persons Doe I Can Wonderful Tvs Drama Right Now Letting Go Shining Employee Employers One Sided

Author:Lee Se-joo

“I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.”

“Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.”

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Author:Melody Beattie

“I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.”

Trying I Can Quality Letting Go Disease Flow Always Believe Perfectionism Can't Let Go

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.”

Knows Want I Can Universe Letting Go What You Want

Author:Jim Carrey

“Man, I have absolutely zero ability into narrowing absolutely any of my favorites into just one, but I have to say, I gotta go between Undertaker and Triple H. Other than all the obvious reasons, but the biggest one for me, those are the only two guys, I could make a mistake and it would be okay. I could put the trust of the match, the story, and absolutely everything into their hands and let go of my control. I'm a control freak (laughs). Those are the only two guys I can let drive and take my hands off the steering wheel.”

“I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.”

Mind I Can Peace Judging Letting Go Forgiving Peace Of Mind Umpires Forgiveness And Peace

Book:Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness

Source: Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness

“Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.”

Knows I Can Soul Dream Eye Night Fall Letting Go My Soul Every Night Captured Falling For You Can't Let Go

Author:Mariah Carey

“Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.”

Needs I Can Two Ideas Strong Sports Gone Alive Letting Go Eating Expectations Pressure Decades Consumed No Pressure Can't Let Go

Author:Clara Hughes

“I think I run my strongest when I run with joy, with gratitude, with focus, with grace. With that strategy in place I can push myself for pleasure, not punishment. Maybe you can only really go when you let go.”

Thinking I Can Running Joy Pleasure Focus Grace Gratitude Letting Go Strategy Punishment Strongest

Author:Kristin Armstrong

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