Affirmations and Quotations

Letting Go

Leave old baggage behind; the less you carry, the farther you go

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

—Rumi

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

—Baltasar Cracian

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

—William James

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than others things do.

—Willa Cather

Sometimes there are se backs when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn’t move.

—Coleman Young

Self is the only prison that can bind a soul.

—Henry Van Dyke

If you judge others you will have no time to love them.

—Mother Teresa

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

—Ann Landers

A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

—Albert Schweitzer

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

—William Shakespeare

Several big ideas have come by taking a deep breath, leaving the building and taking a nice long walk in the sunshine down to get some ice cream.

—Nolan Bushnell

Renewal is the principle—and the process—that empowers us to move on an upward spiral of growth and change, of continuous improvement.

—Stephen R. Covey

Time is neither our friend nor out enemy; it is something that gets measured out to us, to see what we will make of it.

—Richard Gaylord Briley

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

—Bette Bao Lord

Time is neither our friend nor out enemy; it is something that gets measured out to us, to see what we will make of it.

—Richard Gaylord Briley