Smart folks thinking out loud about keeping a grip on things.

“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”
James Lane Allen, American author

“It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in-between we fear. It’s like being between trapezes. It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to.”
Marilyn Ferguson, American author

“Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.”
Ravi Shankar, sitar virtuoso

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher

“To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come.”
Erich Jansch, German psychologist

“There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over — and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.”
Ellen Goodman, AmericanJournalist