Terry Gilliam Quotes

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.

I tend to let the chips fall where they may. I don't know if that's right or wrong.

I think staying grounded is one of the hardest things we'll ever do in our lives. It's always back and forth. To be able to stay grounded, we need to live with open hands that everything that we have has been given to us by the creator of this universe. He can take it, and he can give it back to us. He can take some things, and he can give us new things. When a door closes, a new one is going to open.

I don't mind what happens.

I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

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.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

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

I try to focus on what I'm supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it's supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

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

At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it's gonna be.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

But what is past my help is past my care.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Do nothing. Do nothing. Let it happen. Don't try.

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.

I'm just maintaining the same mindset that I had going into the 2012 Olympics and Olympic trials, which is just, whatever happens, happens.

Surrender is working with what happens.