Quotes About Letting go

Your dreams may not be happening, and things aren't turning out the way you expected, but that doesn't mean your life is spinning out of control. It just means you're not in control.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

I wondered about the half-life of regret.

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

I guess I have learnt now that life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.

As I let go of the need to arrange my life, the universe brings abundant good to me.

When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure.

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.