Letting Go 

1. Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.  Anonymous
2. There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.  Author Unknown
3. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.  Raymond Lindquist
4. Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties …  Gail Sheehy
5. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.  Havelock Ellis
6. 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
7. Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rentfree in your head.  Ann Landers
8. 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
9. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?  Leo Buscaglia
10. 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
11. Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.  Oprah Winfrey
12. Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.  Kate Winslet
13. You never leave someone behind, you take a part of them with you and leave a part of yourself behind.  Author Unknown
14. People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.  Thich Nhat Hanh
15. Some think it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.  Sylvia Robinson
16. Stand up and walk out of your history.  Phil McGraw
17. The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there’s gold in letting go of them.  John Seely Brown
18. Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.  Oprah Winfrey
19. True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.  Author Unknown
20. We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.  Joseph Campbell
21. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.  Lao Tzu
22. You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.  James Matthew Barrie 

Seizing the Day 

1. Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.  Groucho Marx
2. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it.  David Guy Powers
4. I will not be judged today by my yesterday… today I begin again, focused on the success I will create today.  Mike Jones
5. Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.   Bil Keane
6. I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.  Lance Armstrong
7. No one else can speak the words on your lips
   Drench yourself in words unspoken
   Live your life with arms wide open
   Today is where your book begins
   The rest is still unwritten.  Natasha Bedingfield 

Living Life 

1. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.  Unknown
2. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.  Helen Keller
3. The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.  William James
4. I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.  Shirley MacLaine
5. The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.  James Matthew Barrie
6. I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.  Jack London
7. Life is not a dress rehearsal.  Mike Jones
8. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.  Abraham Lincoln
9. You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.  Shira Tehrani
10. Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.  W. Clement Stone
11. Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we’ve learned and create something.  Liz Carpenter
12. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.  William James
13. If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.  John Atkinson
14. Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.  Karen Kaiser Clark
15. There is just one life for each of us: our own.  Euripides