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I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak. -- Meg Ryan
I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with. -- Fred Ward
The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be. -- Adyashanti
I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me... -- Eminem
Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go. -- Lucy Punch
Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions. -- Paul Tsongas
I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music. -- Josh Klinghoffer
That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves. -- Robert Griffin III
Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!' -- Willie Nelson
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go. -- Yao Ming
I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting. -- James Franco
For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course. -- Billy Porter
I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me. -- Ed Greenwood
I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go. -- Emily Giffin
I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go. -- Rowan Atkinson
If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me. -- Walter Payton
I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that. -- Joseph Jackson
Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both. -- Angie Martinez
For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much. -- Juliette Binoche
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing. -- Jeff Bridges
Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.' -- Carlos Pena, Jr.
I think the attitude I was trying to learn myself was to really try hard, to give a great effort, to really care, and to let the results go where they are going to go. But at the same time, I don't have to be happy, and I shouldn't be happy, with less than my best. -- Tom Lehman
Stop trying to control everything, and just let go..let go -- Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying. -- Mark Twain
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. -- Laozi
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying. -- Dora Russell
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! -- Brad Pitt
Let me go!" I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. "I can't," he says. -- Suzanne Collins
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love. -- Lauren DeStefano
Hotting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everuthing and just let go. Let go" -- Chuck Palahniuk
I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary... -- Marianne Williamson
I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody. -- Mic Geronimo
Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness. -- Caroline Myss
But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering. -- Alan Watts
When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong. -- Beth Johnson
You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go. -- Maria Shriver
Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be. -- Melody Beattie

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