Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.

Letting go of control, that's actually when you're safe.

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.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

You can't control everything.

There is nothing in life I would want to control. I love the way nature has given a flow to everything and would love to go with the flow.

Having no expectations is a really good thing.

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.

Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.

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

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

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?

I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.