Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

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About Miguel Ruiz

Portrait of Miguel Ruiz

Miguel Ángel Ruiz Macías (born August 27, 1952), better known as Don Miguel Ruiz, is a Mexican author of Toltec spiritual and personal development texts.

More quotations from Miguel Ruiz

If you live in the past, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.

—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

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More quotations tagged with “letting go”

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

—Joanne Harris in Five Quarters of the Orange

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Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is.

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

—Steve Maraboli

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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

—Robert Green Ingersoll

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