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21 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Letting go✕clear

Autobiography and memoir

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

1956

★ 1.8

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen and all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.

Caddyshack · 1980

★ 1.9

Film · Buddy movie · Action (film) · Action

That's why I don't have an ulcer, because I know when to say, "I don't give a fuck."

Lethal Weapon 2 · 1989

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

Those who are contented and at ease when the occasion comes and live in accord with the course of Nature cannot be affected by sorrow or joy. This is what the ancients called release from bondage. Those who cannot release themselves are so because they are bound by material things.

221 BC

★ 2.0

Philosophical literature

Seekers of the Way. In Buddhism no effort is necessary. All one has to do is to do nothing except to move his bowels, urinate, put on his clothing, eat his meals, and lie down if he is tired. The stupid will laugh at him, but the wise will understand.

886

★ 2.0

Play · Tragedy (play)

Be happy, drink, think each day your own as you live it and leave the rest to fortune.

Alcestis · 438 BC

★ 2.1

Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.

23 BC

★ 2.2

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

You have to let it all go, Neo—fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.

The Matrix · 1999

★ 2.2

Things past redress are now with me past care.

William Shakespeare

1595

★ 2.3

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 2.4

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Let people hold on to these: Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Tao Te Ching · 400 BC

★ 2.4

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go.

Cecil Day-Lewis

1962

★ 3.5

One loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them.

Masanobu Fukuoka

1975

★ 3.6

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

American Beauty · 1999

★ 3.6

Film · Martial arts (film) · Fantasy (film) · Martial arts · Fantasy

There's no eternity to the things we can touch. My master used to say, there's nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we finally possess what is real.

Master Li Mu Bai

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 2000

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

The Enchiridion · 135

★ 3.7

Play · Tragedy (play)

Cudgel thy brains no more about it.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

Leave all things behind, and come unto me for thy salvation. I will make thee free from this bondage of sins. Fear no more.

Bhagavad Gita

200 BC

★ 3.8

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

1792

★ 5.4

We need in love to practice only this: Letting each other go. For holding on Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1909

★ 6.9

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