Miranda July Quotes

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

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

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.' Why should it be any concern of yours who gives your things back to the world that gave them to you? The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.

Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

How well we have learned to let go

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

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

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.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

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

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.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

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.

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.