Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.
Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.
It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.
You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right. "
Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.
Most of all, I want you to know without a doubt that I've got your back. And your front. And your sides. I've got all of you and I'm not letting go.
My mom and dad, you're my heart, thank you for keeping me going all these years and never letting me give up.
I like to live in the present. I struggle with that, though, because - even for all of this "letting your life flow" stuff - I also have anxieties.
Practice experiencing your feelings directly and completely by observing them as they move through your mind and body and then letting them go.
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.
So often, we believe we are alone in the privacy of our fantasies, but that is a delusion as well - and perhaps the most dangerous kind. For in letting ourselves forget about the common threads of our innermost wishes, we erode our foundations and lose the keystone of our souls.
By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.
I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.
Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science
Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.