#letting

Life is not about control or making things happen in the ways we think they should happen. In fact, it's rather arrogant for us to be on this planet that's been here for so long and expect to be able to control life on it. If we want to see changes, then our task is to set things in motion, not to micromanage and make them happen in the ways we think they should. If we have something that is possessing us, such as alcohol or our television sets or our cell phones, then it could be time to let it go and move on with our lives. If we're holding on to resentment and anger, we're simply raising our own stress levels and blood pressure, but we're not contributing anything positive to the situation--and it's time to let it go. ↗

— Tom Walsh

#change #control #let-go #letting-go #releasing

The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. ↗

— Edmund de Waal

#letting-go #art

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

#betrayal #build #deaths #edged #fight

If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#back #blessed #everything #god #i

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#being #being there #character #extended #go

But just as I was ready to call it quits, I got the necessary money from a third party, who had been instructed by Bing to help me out, without letting me know where the help came from. ↗

— Bob Crosby

#bing #call #came #got #had

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#go #knowing #letting #need #part

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#artist #deepens #great #growing #his

I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#camera #control #crowd #get #gun

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die. ↗

— David Hackworth

#die #down #enemy #even #goof