Quotes About Letting go

Remember you don't meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go.

Give up everything, even peace.

The point is, the Four Stages are not for ego-development or attainment; they are a skilful means for recognizing the way we cling to things.

One begins to realize that liberation is through letting go, through allowing life to flow, through openness and attention. 1 August 2001

Notice that this reflective paradigm of the statement, the prescription, and the result are the three aspects of each noble truth. The first Noble Truth is 'understanding', the second is 'letting go of the causes', the third is 'realizing cessation', and the fourth is 'cultivating awareness in the ordinariness of life'.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future.

If she's stupid enough to leave, then you have to be smart enough to let her go.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

God, it was a relief to let go of what I thought I should be. To just accept who I actually was, vulnerabilities and all. I

It is far, far better to close off a possibility, for ever, than to cling to some silly hope.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.

Back in the day, I had this fluoro pink hoodie that I thought was the coolest thing ever. Left it at a party and never saw it again. Probably the best thing that could have happened.

You want them to have fun. If I don't like the way a horse looks, if he has his ears pinned back, I'll send him to the farm, let him go be a horse for a while.

Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.

Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.

The hardest thing for an artist to do is to let go. I don't wanna be the dude - if you come to my house, there are no pictures circa '86 in my house.