As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don’t try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break.
– Julia Butterfly Hill
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
– Oprah Winfrey
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.
– Lao Tzu
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
– Raymond Lindquist
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties,
– Gail Sheehy
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
– Author Unknown
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
– Ann Landers
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.
– Gerald Jampolsky
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
– Leo F. Buscaglia
A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
– Author Unknown
Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!
– From the movie Moulin Rouge
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
– Leo Tolstoy
And here is my heart which beats only for you.
– Paul Verlaine
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet…
– Plato
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu
Believe in the importance of love, for it is the strength an beauty that brings music to our souls.
– Author Unknown
But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
– Robert Burns
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
– Author Unknown
Do you love me because I’m beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
– Oscar Hammerstein
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
– Mark Twain
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.
– Mary Kay Ash
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
– Henry David Thoreau
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.
– Oscar Wilde
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
– Marian Anderson
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
– Barbara Bush
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
– Helen Keller
Being vulnerable doesn’t have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.
– Sara Paddison
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
– Ruth Gordon
Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
– Grace Hansen
Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don’t look at it and wish you had painted something different.
– Author Unknown
My favourite quote in life would have to be one of these two…
‘ If you love someone, let them go……..if they love you, they will return to you’
or
‘ Life is not a rehearsal, live every second like it’s your last ‘
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