Quotes About Letting go

Look neither ahead nor behind, look into yourself, with neither fear nor regret. No one descends into himself so long as he remains a slave of the past or of the future.

Ne regarde ni en avant ni en arrière, regarde en toi-même, sans peur ni regret. Nul ne descend en soi tant qu'il demeure esclave du passé ou de l'avenir.

in order to dispel any impulse of vengeance once I had endured some affront, I would imagine myself quite still in my grave. And I calmed down at once.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

All I wanted was to get through this as quickly as possible, to see the day when memories be just memories.

I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they're dying it keeps them from being reborn as a Buddha

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

Quando rispondiamo al rancore con altro rancore, allora è il momento in cui dobbiamo fermarci. Solo in questo modo potremo smettere di incontrare persone che vivono in preda allo stesso sentimento

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.

When the dust settled, they talked reasonably about the inevitability of change, the idea that they had to let go what might have been and accept what was.

The only way to deal with old baggage was to open it up and sort through. How else to know what to keep and what to toss?

Letting go wasn't a betrayal, but rather a pure form of love. But letting go entailed acceptance of reality

What if the past won't stay packed away in a box with my name on it, just sitting there until I feel like taking if off the shelf and lifting the lid?

It's better to be rid of them than to have to fight off unpleasant memories.

Why be saddled with artifacts that no longer inspired me?

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

When you carry pain and do not release and let go of the past, your body will faithfully show you the results of your repressed feelings. Just as facing your fears is the best way to overcome them, you can also deal with your deepest feelings by acknowledging their existence.

I wanted to take his leash off and let him run free, but I was scared to. What if he decided he'd had enough of me and ran off to be a stray again?

If I get stuck in who I am now, I will never blossom into who I might yet become. I need to practice the gentle art of letting go. —SAM KEEN, AUTHOR

While "intention" is a magnet that attracts what we want, "letting go" provides the space for our desire to manifest.

Give up the stories you've made up about what's "true" about your physical potential and just be with your breath and in your body, feeling what you feel. Give up trying to collect things in your practice. Give up the thought that whatever is happening within your body right now should not be.