Letting Quotes - page 3

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens - that letting go - you let go because you can. View quote
Toni Morrison
Things oughtn't to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them. View quote
Avram Davidson
Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian. View quote
Henry Ford
The good and eatable fish are separated by the fishers' skill from the bad and poisonous fish, so that the enjoyment of the good should not be spoilt by any of the bad getting into the "vessels" with them. The work of true sobriety is the same; from all pursuits and habits to choose that which is pure and improving, rejecting in every case that which does not seem likely to be useful, and letting it go back into the universal and secular life, called "the sea" (Matthew 13:47-48), in the imagery of the Parable. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her). View quote
Meg Cabot
Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go. View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
The terrorists didn't think that Yazidi girls would have the courage to tell the world every detail of what they did to us. We defy them by not letting their crimes go unanswered. View quote
Nadia Murad
And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center. (Augusten Burroughs)
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation. View quote
Eugen Herrigel
Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust. View quote
Paula Rinehart
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that. View quote
Robin Wright
Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen. View quote
Cecily von Ziegesar
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance, and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential. View quote
Scott Belsky
Don't worry, we're not letting her out of our sight...and after the Nick incident, we're not letting her out from behind this bar. (Aimee) Yeah, Prisoners R Us. (Tory) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes. View quote
Daniel Wallace
If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest. View quote
Deb Caletti
Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be. View quote
David Levithan
True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature. . . . It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely. (Dennis Merzel)
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners. View quote
James Surowiecki
I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that. View quote
Jane Goldman
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. - My Bestfriend's Girl. View quote
Dorothy Koomson