CURATED COLLECTION

Letting Go of Control

The things beyond your reach multiply the moment you stop reaching — wisdom on release.

34 quotes found

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Yield and overcome. Bend and be straight. Empty and be full.

—Lao TzuPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

—Marcus AureliusEmperor & Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

—EpictetusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

—Lao TzuPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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Governing a large country is like cooking a small fish. Too much handling spoils it.

—Lao TzuPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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Do not be hasty in words or deeds; think before you act.

—Abai QunanbaiulyPoet, Composer & Philosopher

Industrial Age ERA • Central Asia

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Time, the destroyer of all things, yet builder of new fortunes.

—Mustafa Safi al-Din al-Tughra'iPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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All things are in motion like a river.

—HeraclitusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

—HeraclitusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Calm is not where nothing bothers you. Calm is where you can handle what bothers you.

—Alain de BottonAuthor & Philosopher

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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A fish trap is for catching fish; once you've caught the fish, you can forget the trap.

—ZhuangziPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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I taught myself to live simply and wisely.

—Anna AkhmatovaPoet

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.

—HoraceLyric Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Progress is simply a function of how much energy you apply to a problem.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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To fear change is to fear life itself, for life is constant transformation.

—Carmen NaranjoPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Central America

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

—Benjamin FranklinPolymath & Statesman

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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Life flows like a river, ever changing, washing away the old, bringing in the new.

—Boris PilnyakNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?

—John SteinbeckNovelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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The Way changes and transforms; its changes are without limit.

—I ChingAuthor & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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