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

“Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Happiness Powerful Masters Buddhism Letting Go Waste Noble Horrible Wealthy Wasting Time Truthful Demonic Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Littles Two Would Be Certain Forget Know How Letting Go Mental Health Overwhelming

Author:Dylan Walsh

“If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Body Situation Letting Go Pressure Your Body Best Way Tension Whistling

Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.”

Ifs Thinking Realizing Results Listening Letting Go Social Media Yield Fooling Yourself

Author:Charlene Li

“We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.”

Ifs Past Happiness Letting Go Want To Be Happy

Author:Lester Levenson

“Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective.”

Ifs Able Situation Leader Letting Go Behavior Forgiving Arise Resentment Lingering Assertive

Author:James Hunter

“If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.”

Ifs Trying Understanding Attitude Wise Letting Go Compassionate Rebirth Incarnation Just Let Go

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.”

Ifs Kind Interest Enemy Sacrifice Ready Morality Letting Go Ethics Behalf Involving

Author:George F. R. Ellis

“Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just sit through it and let go of everything. Attain fulfillment and illuminate thoroughly. Light and shadow altogether forgotten. Drop off your own skin, and the sense-dusts will be fully purified. The eye then readily discerns the brightness.”

Ifs Want Ideas Light Eye Letting Go Shadow Skins Forgotten Invisible Dust Fulfillment Turmoil Brightness Weaving Light And Shadow

Author:Hongzhi Zhengjue

“When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Life Is Honest Letting Go Being Honest Get Better Unhealthy Stop Trying Honest With Yourself Unproductive Be Honest With Yourself

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go.”

Ifs Men Way Done Left Rooms Wonder Heard Arms Letting Go Rounds Shoulders Intimate Hug Polite Dressings Hierarchy Left Alone Sideways Dressing Rooms

Author:Antony Sher

“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

“Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think thats why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artists angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasnt a photographer, Id still be a traveler.”

“Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.”

Ifs Character Stories Love Is Attention Letting Go Victim Villain

Book:Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

Source: Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

“You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.”

Ifs Needs Giving Heart Real Choices Chance Steps Source Letting Go All Things Worthy Realization Dawn Attachment Great Love Unreal Lovable Give It A Chance Imagining Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Teresa possessed a love for the poor; Billy Graham, a gift for preaching; and Joni Eareckson Tada, a disability. What did they have in common? A willingness to let God use whatever they had, even when it didn't seem very useful. If you will assess what you have to offer in terms of your time, your treasure, and your talents, you will have a better understanding of how you might uniquely serve.”

Source: The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World

“The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.”

Ifs Writing Mean Reality Next Comedy Letting Go Losing Wave Reactions Gravity Really Mean Sitcom Rules Of Life Can't Let Go Relatability

Author:Michael Patrick King

“If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?”

Ifs Knows Might Money Letting Go

Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”

“If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.”

Ifs Knows Emotional Letting Go Ships Managers Wheels Frustrated Steers Can't Let Go

Author:Kirk Gibson

“I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can make or break my day. If I drank, I would probably drink a lot.”

Ifs Film Break Impossible Drink Scene Letting Go Drank Dissatisfaction Terminal Make Or Break

Author:Jared Leto

“If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.”

Ifs Happens Rooms Saws Letting Go Tables Things Happen Designer Construction Crew Graphic Graphic Designer

Author:Jack White

“When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.”

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.”

Ifs Giving Seems Loses Prayer Doors Cry Listening Letting Go Giving Up Driven Hold Fast Never Let Go

Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

“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!”

“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”

Ifs Knows Trying Enough Wanted Wise Letting Go This Life Why Not

Book:The First Bad Man

Source: The First Bad Man

“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.”

People Ifs Looks Made Ideas Moments Would Be Girl Term Decision Accepting Personality Easier Lucky Letting Go Percent Decided Lifetime Currency

Author:Amy Poehler

“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

“Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.”

Ifs Want Should Whole Meditation Buddhism Periods Letting Go Train Settling Settling Down Chakra Chakra Meditation Train Of Thought

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.”

Ifs Needs Writing Ends Chance Letting Go Prepared Screens Be Prepared Screenplays Good Chance

Author:Meg Cabot

“I know most of my records are real good but I know that there are definitely things I would've changed at the end of the day. I work on things forever, and there are things I wish I didn't do, but ultimately I know the records are good. I kind of let go of big expectations, maybe because hopefully that means if I don't have them, that it'll do really well, but you just never know.”

Ifs Knows Wells Kind Mean Real Ends Bigs Wish Forever Records Changed Letting Go Expectations Hopefully The End Of The Day

Author:Kurt Vile

“If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.”

Ifs Faces Hate Easy Letting Go Relax Your Face

Author:Laini Taylor

“We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Littles Running Joy Change Successful Habit Letting Go Relax Endeavor Pauses

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I think pro-athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create! Lets go! Anything that will make you run faster, jump higher! I have High-Definition TV! I want my athletes like my video games! Lets go! I could care less if you die at 40. You hate life after sports anyways. I'm doing you a favor.”

“The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.”

Ifs Order Fear Nature Natural Trust Letting Go Disorder Natural Order

Author:Judith Malina

“Country music as we know it would be vastly different if it weren't for George Jones. He's in our musical DNA. All country artists will have to figure out how to even begin to live up to his kind of legacy. 'Honky Tonk Heaven,' here he comes... though we're not ready to let go.”

Ifs Knows Kind Different Country Would Be Artist Heaven Figures Ready Letting Go Musical Legacy Dna Not Ready George Jones Tonks Country Artist

Author:Pam Tillis

“If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.”

“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

“If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.”

“We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.”

Ifs Nature Letting Go Myth Mastery Dominance

Author:Naomi Klein

“Cooking professionally is a dominant act, at all times about control. Eating well, on the other hand, is about submission. It's about giving up all vestiges of control, about entrusting your fate entirely to someone else. It's about turning off the mean, manipulative, calculating, and shrewd person inside you, and slipping heedlessly into a new experience as if it were a warm bath. It's about shutting down the radar and letting good things happen. Let it happen to you.”

Source: The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones

“But beware of this about callings: they may not lead us where we intended to go or even where we want to go. If we choose to follow, we may have to be willing to let go of the life we already planned and accept whatever is waiting for us. And if the calling is true, though we may not have gone where we intended, we will surely end up where we need to be.”

Ifs Want Needs May Ends Waiting Accepting Gone Willing Calling Letting Go

Author:Steve Goodier

“Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.”

People Ifs Men Trying Stills Might Turns Bits Path Personality Letting Go Argument Direct Balls Gestures Alleys Bowling Bowling Alleys

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Women can be pressured to be perfect in many ways. And in our efforts to be "responsible" in every way, you might lose time and energy. If you truly want to direct [a film], you may have to let go of pleasing everyone on a consistent basis.”

Ifs Way Want May Might Film Energy Loses Perfect Effort Letting Go Direct Bases Responsible Consistent Being Responsible Time And Energy Pressured Pleasing Everyone

Author:Jennifer Phang

“Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.”

“If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.”

Ifs Way Christian Jesus Leadership Church Deals Letting Go

Author:Johnny Hunt

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams, hopes, desire and progress.”

“Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.”

Ifs Moments Film Wife Directors Letting Go Sitting My Wife Awards Academy Academy Awards

Author:Ben Kingsley

“Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.”

Ifs Knows Happens Sound Space Healing Silence Activity Letting Go Bases Notes Things Happen Settling Ingredients Stillness Inactivity

Author:Paul Horn

“My mother passed away, my marriage ended, and I moved. Those are some pretty big things to let go of. But I find that if you hold on to something too tightly, you strangle it and yourself. If you don't let go, and let things go through you, it's toxic - physically.”

Ifs Bigs Mother Letting Go Moved Toxic Big Things Passed Away Letting Things Go Don't Let Go Mother Passed Away

Author:Ingrid Michaelson

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