Letting Go Quotes

“I began to see that “success” had always been about money, power, survival, or fear, when it should have been about enjoyment and contentment; about enjoying the brief time we all have. ”
― Jeffrey Sands, Letting Go: A Marine's Journey Through War and His Search for Meaning

“Although I speak very highly of Marines, whether they are enlisted or officers, there always seems to be a statistical anomaly when it comes to the ratio of shitbags to non-shitbags everywhere in the world.”
― Jeffrey Sands, Letting Go: A Marine's Journey Through War and His Search for Meaning

“I didn’t realize it at the time, but suppressing my emotions wasn’t a sign of strength, it was a sign of weakness.  I feared my own emotions, and I blocked them out, how tough could that really be?  To tackle them head on, that was the real challenge.  Once I understood that I didn’t need to resist my emotions, that’s when things changed; once I understood that resisting them wasn’t controlling them, no matter how hard I tried.”
― Jeffrey Sands, Letting Go: A Marine's Journey Through War and His Search for Meaning

“I looked inside, compelled to stare, staining the image of a dead body into my memory. I did not deserve to look away. I had to know the awfulness of war; the wickedness of our species.”
― Jeffrey Sands, Letting Go: A Marine's Journey Through War and His Search for Meaning