quotes about letting go

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. ~Dereke Bruce



I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. ~Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thanks, Charlene)



Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. ~Sara Ebenreck, American Forests



Our distrust is very expensive. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. ~Kazuo Inamori



You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ~James A. Froude



John Adams: "It's like having your cake and eating it too."



Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ~Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985



Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one. ~Author Unknown



Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner. ~Will Rogers



The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. ~Edgar Allan Poe



Oh, one world at a time! ~Henry David Thoreau, when asked about afterlife



We speak little if not egged on by vanity. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off. ~Michael Nelson



Wedlock is a padlock. ~John Ray, English Proverbs



Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. ~Rene Dubos, quoted in Life, 28 July 1970



Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town. ~Gene Perret



The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how. ~Deepak Chopra



Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958

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