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Quotes About Letting go

Whatever may be troubling you, shake it off! God has great things planned for you. The dreams of the future leave no room for the snakebites of the past.
~ Joyce Meyer
There are some things that we can do something about, but there are a whole lot of things that we can't do anything about. If it is something we can't do anything about, then we need to let it go and keep our joy. We need to hold our peace - and our tongues - do what is right, and let God work on our behalf.
~ Joyce Meyer
If you find yourself cluttered up and done in by disorganization, ask yourself why you seem to hang on to everything that comes your way. Do you feel obligated to keep it just because someone gave it to you? Of course, we don't want to hurt people's feelings, but on the other hand, if a gift is given correctly, it comes with no strings attached. If someone truly gives you a gift, it should be yours to do with as you please.
~ Joyce Meyer
If you have wondered how to have peace, I can tell you that it will come if you will quit making a big deal about everything.
~ Joyce Meyer
The Word says to cast our care on Him, not our responsibility.
~ Joyce Meyer
Let me go." "I can't", he said hoarsely, (…)" I've tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can't.
~ Judith McNaught
The decade is over, time to begin forgiving old sins. Thirteen years since your death on a Florida interstate - and again a dream of an old wrong.
~ Judith Ortiz Cofer
How do you stop yourself from worrying?" "I think of all the good things in my life." "What about the bad things?" "There's no room for them inside my head. Not anymore. Now I say live and let live, and I kick those other thoughts away.
~ Judy Blume
Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What's the point of worrying in advance?" "How do you stop yourself from worrying?" "I think of all the good things in my life." "What about the bad things?" "There's no room for them inside my head. Not anymore. Now I say live and let live, and I kick those other thoughts away. You can do that, too.
~ Judy Blume
You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest
~ Judy Blume
I want to let myself go, to glide over the charming greased surface, to be bewitched and intoxicated. And I'm no longer afraid of waking up. Let this world take me, Let this Paris squeeze me to death, so long as it first caresses me and carries me in its arms.
~ Juhani Aho
It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
~ Wallace Stegner
We must be reconciled, for what we left behind us can never be ours again.
~ Wallace Stegner
Even while you paid attention to what you must do today and tomorrow, you heard the receding sound of what you had relinquished.
~ Wallace Stegner
Two movements in human life are important: (a) deep reluctance to let loose of a world that has passed away, and (b) capacity to embrace a new world being given.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Because if you cling excessively to the past, you will miss the newness being enacted before your very eyes.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
~ Walter Dean Myers
somehow I knew that I could do it. I knew that I must abandon myself entirely to the will of the Father and live from now on in this spirit of self-abandonment to God. And I did it. I can only describe the experience as a sense of "letting go," giving over totally my last effort or even any will to guide the reins of my own life. It is all too simply said, yet that one decision has affected every subsequent moment of my life. I have to call it a conversion.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Mein Freund erkannte tatsächlich, daß es so nicht weiterging, wenn er nicht in einer Zwangsjacke enden wollte. Er sah ein, daß er sich mehr den weltlichen Dingen zuwenden mußte. Also verließ er seine Wahngebäude, ließ sie zu wunderschönen Ruinen verfallen, die er nur noch selten aufsuchte. Und er konzentrierte sich nun auf das, was ihn umgab.
~ Walter Moers
Having jettisoned all my ballast, I concentrated on escaping.
~ Walter Moers
El apego es la incapacidad de renunciar a determinadas cosas cuando nos hacen daño, nos quitan libertad y generan malestar emocional.
~ Walter Riso
sólo cuando estés libre de tu pasado amoroso podrás empezar un presente afectivo sostenido y saludable. Si
~ Walter Riso
desear lo que hay que desear en cantidades manejables y rechazar aquello que nos apegue.
~ Walter Riso
todos morimos, envejecemos y enfermamos. La existencia o la vida, como veremos más adelante, es impermanente, y por lo tanto nuestras fuentes de apego se agotarán, nos guste o no. Si aceptaras esta premisa con todo tu ser no tendrías apegos.
~ Walter Riso