Quotes About Just Letting Things Happen

#1. Are any of us really awake? Are we making decisions about our lives, or just letting things happen to us?

Jessica Hawkins

#2. I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.

Stephen King

#3. Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

Annie E. Clark

#4. I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

Jane Siberry

#5. My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

Katherine Moennig

#6. I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

Damian Woetzel

#7. Before a marketer can build trust, it must breed familiarity. But there's no familiarity without awareness. And awareness - the science of letting people know you exist and getting them to understand your message - can't happen effectively in today's environment without advertising.

Seth Godin

#8. She's consuming me and I'm letting it happen. Revelling in it, really.

Monica Murphy

#9. It seems everyone's so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen.

Carlos Salinas

#10. As the author Tim Ferriss once wrote: "Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things.

Cal Newport

#11. Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.

Shakti Gawain

#12. Don't be a passive partner. This relationship is not something that's happening to to you. We are the drivers here. You're pretending that you just can't resist me, so you're letting it happen. I need more from you.

R.K. Lilley

#13. The moment is freedom. - I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

Bruce Lee

#14. Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

Caroline Myss

#15. I remember saying to someone when I got one of those 'don't do it' comments - I just remember hearing my voice being calm and saying, 'No, it's going happen. It's going to happen. I'm just letting you know.'

T. R. Knight

#16. Instead of just letting life happen, I'm going to make it happen for me.

Denis Waitley

#17. We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

Daniel Handler

#18. Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

Emily Haines

#19. Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#20. I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing that sometimes community can happen only in the gaps where mystery resides.

Joyce Hollyday

#21. We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It's not about making learning happen; it's about letting it happen.

Sugata Mitra

#22. Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

Octavio Paz

#23. Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning.

Stephen Richards

#24. Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

Conan O'Brien

#25. It was a mistake to not tell you how I felt. It's haunted me since the day I came home and found you gone. You'll never know how sorry I am for letting you slip through my fingers. But it won't happen again because I'm never letting you go. Ever

Georgia Cates

#26. Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

Robin Sharma

#27. Maturity ... is letting things happen.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#28. We are all monsters" Hannah said. "Because we are letting it happen." She said it not as if she believed it but as she were to repeat something she had heard before.

Jane Yolen

#29. By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

Taylor Negron

#30. He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.

Alice Hoffman

#31. Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone ... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things ... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

Christopher Reeve

#32. He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him. Then

Spencer Johnson

#33. Sometimes you have to stop trying to control everything and let life happen the way it's supposed to, Tess. Even if it's not exactly the way you wanted.
But what if it's not even a little like you wanted?
Then you deal with it and keep going.

Lord, Cynthia

#34. Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.

Phil Robertson

#35. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel, or not to feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to
letting a person be what he really is.

Ava Dellaira

#36. Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

Ray Bradbury

#37. I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

Dogen

#38. Q. Why is it so difficult to control attention? A. Lack of habit. We are too accustomed to letting things happen. When we want to control attention or something else, we find it difficult, just as physical work is difficult if we are not accustomed to it.

P.D. Ouspensky

#39. Letting go is hard for me. I have spent too many anxious moments and sleepless nights in worry over what would happen if I let go. Much like being part of a search-and-rescue effort, I would find myself always searching for the unexpected spins in life while preparing to rescue the outcome.

Eve M. Harrell

#40. Except that night didn't change my life. I changed it. I have to stop acting like I have no control over these things. Like I'm letting them just happen to me. These are my choices. For better or worse.

Hannah Harrington

#41. At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.

Margaret Stohl

#42. Awakening is not a process of building ourselves up but a process of letting go. It's a process of relaxing in the middle - the paradoxical, ambiguous middle, full of potential, full of new ways of thinking and seeing - with absolutely no money-back guarantee of what will happen next.

Pema Chodron

#43. Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

William S. Burroughs

#44. Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

Joel Osteen