Rick Nielsen Quotes

Better bow than break.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

At a certain point, I think, you harden yourself to the realities of the business.

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

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!

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

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.

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.

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.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

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.

Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got .. If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not .. If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming

You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.

You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is no salvation at all. Unless you sleep alone, you sleep with the enemy. Never come out of the storm. On the other hand, maybe you should. You don't have what it takes to go the hard way. Come out of the cold and sit by the fire. Let them warm you with the smiles and promise of friendship's fortune. Lose your edge. A soft body and chained mind suit you. Chances are you don't have what it takes to walk the frozen trail. Stay home and relax.

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

It is fitting for a great nation to yield.