"When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure."
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"I've always had a sense of responsibility - I think that comes with being the oldest kid in the family. Now, I'm getting more comfortable with acting a little younger and carefree because I've been so responsible my whole life. I'm letting go a little."
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"Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on."
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"I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me."
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"Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk. Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go."
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"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?"
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"I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom."
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"I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now."
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"Humans cannot find freedom until they let go of old obsolete ideas."
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"Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior."
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"I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone."
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"I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass."
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"If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go."
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"Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again."
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"The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before."
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"A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value."
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"I often yearn to regress into a state that's slightly more atavistic than my decades of conditioning generally allow, but it's difficult to let go of those reigns."
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"Let me get a sip of water here... you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? Because I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day."
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"Prosperity lets goe the bridle."
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"There is no need to drag yourself through life, let go of the struggle & give yourself the time & love to find balance."
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