"...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up."

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Source : Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

Richard Carlson

#Letting Go Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Serious Quotes

“Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.”
“It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.”
“I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.”

Source : Frederick Busch (2013). “The Stories of Frederick Busch”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“Something very unique about Germany is that once you are suspected or accused of having worked for the Stassi, it doesn't matter if you were 18-years-old, or a child, or an adult back then. Even if you deny it you won't get rid of this suspicion.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.”
“I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.”

Source : Interview with Josh Tyrangiel, www.bloomberg.com. June 22, 2012.
“The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.”

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