Quotes About Letting go

Drop into your body and give up any need to exert effort, to control, achieve, or accomplish. Give up any "shoulds." Give up your to-do list. Give up any remaining resistance. Give it all up to get empty.

We can't control everything thing our kids do. Sooner or later they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. They're like people that way.

She let him go.

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

All our efforts won't make water any wetter.

Surrendering is not the giving up of something. True surrender is the total acceptance of yourself. You're not 'losing' anything in the surrender, the way your society usually means that word. You are not giving up anything in the sense of loss. Surrender means to open up: Open up to your total self; to give in and let go of the things you think you're supposed to be. Just be who you are. It will see you through.

It's so important to identify beliefs. Because once you identify [a negative belief], once you bring it into the light, you will see it doesn't belong to you: - That it came from your parents; - It came from your family; - It came from your society; - It came from your friends. And you bought into it. But it isn't yours. Holding on to something that isn't yours is called theft. Don't be a belief thief! Let go of what isn't yours.

And in my hour of darkness, She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, "let it be"

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

I wrote 'Song Like You' the day I recognized that someone who was really important to me was not actually very good for me, nor was I for them. I think we all have to make hard decisions like that at one point or another, having to let go of someone who we love because love isn't always enough to make it work.

Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me.

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.