Jodhi May Quotes

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.

But what is past my help is past my care.

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.

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?

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.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

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

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

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

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

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!

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

And so I’ll let you go, and let it be. Whatever

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

One must be able to let things happen.

I don't mind what happens.