Margaret Atwood Quotes

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.

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.

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

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.

What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

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.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Give it all up and you can have it all.

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

Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.

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.

Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

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.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

We only keep what we lose.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing.