Lizz Wright Quotes

Surrender to the flow.

When I try to go with what's happening and embrace that as much as I can, it seems to be a much smoother journey for me.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

You have to make peace with life.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

You can't ever force anything, and you have to deal with what comes to you as it comes.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

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

Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

Give up the thought that you have control. You don't. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.

When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.

Joy is in learning to say yes to what is and to surrender into flow with what is, even when it's what you don't want.

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

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?

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.