Evelyn Keyes Quotes

Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

So we're in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and... basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Ty it well, and let it goe.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.