Quotes About Letting go

Closure is for jars, books, and closet doors.

memory will cut you off at the knees if you let it.

I had a theory for a while, but I had to let it go. It was wasting away in captivity. It sat there in the cage of my brain and wouldn't eat. When I had first trapped it it was beautiful and wile and amused everyone. "Too much attention," the vet said. It wasn't cut out for that kind of life. "Smart

I am willing to release that part of me that irritates me when I think of you.

He had decided not to be angry: it was killing him.

He is not going to come back now, for me, for you or for anyone. This time he has found the boatman, and the boatman has taken him over.

Philippa … release me from my promise.' She put her hands over her mouth, and then took them away. 'I can't. I can't.' He had pulled his own hands down, looking still at the stool, his face quite turned away. 'You can. Philippa. Please let me go.'

I tell you that whatever infatuation you have fallen into, you cannot keep that man at your side. He belongs where he belongs and he will arrive there, no matter how deep you bury him. Best free him at once and save the heart ache.

The moment is past. The chessboard has gone; and the people. You must let me take the room from you too.

Let the past die, my child, and go gaily on from its unmarked grave.

George Herbert said, "He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

What was the self-sacrifice? I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes. Why was that self-sacrifice? Because they were mine! said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems. Well mine's better.

Do you think they're…" "Where they are, how they are, there's no way we can know and no way we can do anything about it. Do what I do." "What?" "Don't think about it.

Where they are, how they are, there's no way we can know and no way we can do anything about it. Do what I do.' 'What?' 'Don't think about it.

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Besides, she told herself, taking a deep breath, if life had taught her anything it was this: Never go back for your bag.

If there's one thing that life's taught me," said Tricia, "it's never go back for your bag.

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren't even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver's seat, it can drive itself so much easier—it can flow in ways you never imagined. Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the "me" is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.

You come into the natural state by letting go of control by letting go of effort and resting in a state of vividness. It's very simple. It couldn't be simpler. Sit down; let everything be as it already is.

379True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states lead only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.