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Quotes About Letting go

Don't get attached to anything.
~ Rajneesh
You have to let life come and go.
~ Ramin Bahrani
You have to sit with your life and feel how you hold it, and be willing for the release to happen. It will happen spontaneously, because it's already so.
~ Reb Anderson
But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
~ Rebecca Stead
Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.
~ Richelle Mead
Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over
~ Sara Shepard
Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.
~ Sarah McLachlan
Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.
~ Steig Larsson
If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.
~ Stephen G. Post
One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.
~ Sydney Samuelson
Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life.
~ Tim McCarthy
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
~ Walker Percy
What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.
~ Lee L Jampolsky
You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?
~ Louie Anderson
I comfortably and easily release the old and and welcome the new in my life. I am safe.
~ Louise Hay
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.
~ Mary McMullen
In his imaginative response to Luther's text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words from start to finish: he shows that it can hold our attention and captivate us by metaphors that strike like lightning. As long as we are willing to let go and allow him to describe the world to us as he sees it, we are soon provided with a first point of entry.
~ John Eliot Gardiner