Juliette Binoche Quotes

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

I'd spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.

I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.

Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.

The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Leaving feels too good, once you leave.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!

I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.

If you love somebody, set them free.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.