Letting Quotes

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

Love, Freedom, Yourself

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis

Art, Living, Lies

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao Tzu

Winning, Done, Try

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
Ron Taffel

Kids, Watch, Reach

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse

Strong, Sometimes, Makes

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho

Mistakes, Two, Acting

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama

Greed, Country, Special

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers

Getting, Conscience, Lawyers

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.
Mitt Romney

Love, Government, Children

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald Jampolsky

Peace, Past, Means

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia

Sex, Leaving, Vacation

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Dan Millman

Life, Faith, Heart

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
Debra Messing

Life, Happiness, Idea

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
Hillary Clinton

Political, Violence, Effort

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Pope Benedict XVI

Faith, Attitude, Today

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Mick Jagger

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie

Against, Hours, Golden

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Mao Zedong

Thought, Progress, Culture

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley

Best, Water, Sky

When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
Michelle Obama

Work, Women, Mother

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
Charlotte Gainsbourg

Work, Afraid, Top

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
Terry Pratchett

Hurt, Stupid, Betrayal

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.
Anne Lamott

Love, Nothing, Cry

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Money, Art

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
Bill Watterson

Best, Mind, Play

I'm bad at letting go of things.
Heidi Klum

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
David Frost

Art, Else, Somebody

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
John Keegan

Courage, Loyalty, Done

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.
Jimmy Carter

Time, Snow, Friends

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