E. M. Forster Quotes

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

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

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

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

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.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

Sometimes you gotta say, 'Okay' - even if you're not sure you're ready.

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.

I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules.

Nothing ever goes to plan. As soon as you are OK with that, everything is much easier.

You have to be ready for anything and everything and accept everything the way things are.

When I shaved my hair, my friends asked me to keep it, maybe make my own wig out of it, but I wanted the old hair to go; it was not mine. I wanted to let go.

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

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