Joanne Harris Quotes

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.

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

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Surrender to the flow.

When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.