Quotes About Letting go

In this world of dreams, drifting off still more; and once again speaking and dreaming of dreams. Just let it be.

Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.

The only thing you can do is to stop attaching importance to your own ways of thinking and feeling, your thought patterns, your emotions, and your opinions. Don't attach any importance to them. Then your limitations will become weaker and weaker and one day collapse.

Right now your problem is that you suffer what happened ten years ago and you suffer what may happen the day after tomorrow.

Emotional pain is a memory that we choose to hold on to. Subconsciously or consciously.

The more you try to be special, the more you get hurt. Just be, just melt and become part of the wind around you, the earth around you, become a part of everything. You're here only for a while. At least when you're in a place like this, where nobody is going to trample on you, let your defenses down. Let it be. Forget your comforts, your sensibilities, your likes and dislikes. Leave all that nonsense and be with me.

Only that person who does not carry the previous moment to this moment, only that person is free from everything, and that quality will be felt everywhere.

When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace. —The Venerable Ajahn Chah, twentieth-century Buddhist monk In

This is the time to make those hard decisions and let things go. Ask yourself, "Is this item part of my past or my future?" If it's sentimental, take a picture and let it go! Save the memory in a picture, but not on your shelf.

It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.

The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.

The present is all that you can give up, since that is all that you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.

Think of thy last hour. Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.

I don't know whether the gods hear and answer our prayers, or not. Either way, why not pray for the strength to let go of your desires and fears? Wouldn't it be better to be content with what you already have and to fear nothing? Try praying this way—for an inner change, rather than an outer one—and see what happens.

33. To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.

Accept humbly: let go easily.

accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.

Receive without conceit; release without a struggle.

Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by it.

The sands of time are quicksands, said Adam One. So much can sink into them without a trace. And what a blessing when those things that sink away are needless worries.

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.