SZA Quotes

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

Everybody is going to have their own issues that they bring to the table, but for me, the best thing is just giving over to whatever is there and trusting whatever is there and enjoying it.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

When we practice cleaning our slate and interacting without motive, what we actually 'get' in return is greater than what we might have expected. Life can open up and be full of surprises that blow past our narrow expectations.