Letting Quotes

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)
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. View quote
Mick Jagger
Only lies and evil come from letting people off. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. View quote
Camille Paglia
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. View quote
Hermann Hesse
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with each other... View quote
Steve Reich
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. View quote
Nhat Hanh
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. View quote
Jim Morrison
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. View quote
Havelock Ellis
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. View quote
Gerald Jampolsky
Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity. (Germaine Greer)
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. And we're seeing it in our society. View quote
Rick Santorum
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. View quote
Christopher Morley
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. View quote
Laozi
How selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go. View quote
Cecil Day Lewis
Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. View quote
Melody Beattie
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. View quote
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Forgiveness means letting go of the past. View quote
Gerald Jampolsky
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. View quote
Elizabeth Berg
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give. (Thomas Jefferson)
The Moment is freedom. - I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them. View quote
Bruce Lee
I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment. View quote
John Cage
The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose. View quote
Newt Gingrich
I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures. View quote
Brian De Palma