Quotes About Letting go

You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

That you are a worldly adult,' she said. 'You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let them go. We all do it, to shield ourselves from disappointment. It's easy to shed them. Not so easy to get them back.

When we let go of insisting that we are who we think we are and that the world should give us exactly and only what we want, all things shine forth.

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

For, as I always like to say: 'It is not possessing something that is harmful, but being attached to it.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

Not every wound needs to be poked and opened, and not every wrong needs to be reexamined, or dragged kicking and screaming into the light. Better just to let the wound heal, even if it doesn't heal quite right, or to leave the wrongs in the dark, and remind yourself not to go stepping into the shadows if you can avoid it.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

We constantly need to be reminded not to attach to anything.

Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything come up freely and go away freely. We don't grasp anything. We don't try to control anything. We just sit.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

Letting go of the need to control things doesn't mean letting go of responsibility. It means embracing life.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.

Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

The past is dead except for the life you give it

When we...go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.