Guillermo del Toro Quotes

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

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!

Love does not want or fear anything.

No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.

You don't have to give up to let go

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Love without attachment is light.

I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

The first rule of negotiation is to always be willing to walk away from the deal. The first rule of happiness is to not be attached to pleasing moments.

I think all of us have enemies in disguise, but there is nothing much you can do about that. You have to live with it. I just do my own thing and let the enemies be.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

If this game is taken away from me at any time, I'd be fine going back to the house and living a happy life. If that happens, it happens.