Robin Sharma Quotes

Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

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

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

I think, in life, the more you force things, they break. You just let things happen.

Surrender is working with what happens.

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them."

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

I don't worry about the things I can't change.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

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

I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.