John Grant Quotes

We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.

A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!

I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.

I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.

When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me.

I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn't regret anything that I ever did... I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.

You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.

Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go

I am here to help you unburden all your guilt feelings. I am here to help you to start trusting yourself again. Once you start trusting your own being, no politician, no priest can exploit you. Man is always exploited through fear.

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.