"In Blackwater Woods"
American Primitive (1983)
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
“… 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.”
Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
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Richard Carlson 35
Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker 1961–2006Related quotes

Regarding rioting (1968), as quoted in Judgment days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America (2005), by Nick Kotz, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 417.
1960s

“Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?”
Source: Kartography

Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.”
Source: Bangkok Tattoo