Quotes About Letting go

But after years of practice I've come to feel grateful when I observe these unskillful patterns arise, because now I would rather see them than not see them. It becomes another chance to unhook from these patterns, to see their essential transparency, and to let go of the burden they bring.

It is important to remain afloat, eyes on the horizon, always. The past is a drowning madman; throw him a rope, he'll pull you in. [Bram Stoker]

She let go. "You looked so funny flapping your paws around! Like a fledgling just out of the nest!

The past is the past. The future is fresh. You must forget all you have known, no matter how much you loved it, and choose paths that will carry you to a new dawn." -Bright Stream

Perhaps the Sky-Dogs are telling us that life's too fragile these days to hold a grudge.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

This realization allowed me to calm myself enough to heed the whispered advice of Master Yoda now on repeat in my head: Let go of your anger.

Sometimes I think the greatest things God teaches us are only found when we realize that we were never in control in the first place. I think your need to control things is just your fear of the unknown. Don't miss out on the blessings He has for you just because you're scared.

To be transformed implies letting go of control for a while in the hopeful expectation that something worthwhile may result

stop talking about the things that are bothering you so much.

I don't hold memories in my hand, but I'll never let them go.

You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.

relinquishment is prerequisite to fulfillment

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Getting even has never healed a single person.

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series and that I've been able to see my characters through to the end of their journeys. On the other hand, I feel like how parents must feel when they send their kid off to college. It's a bittersweet mix.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and... it felt hard to delete the name.

I am not someone who holds grudges, and I want to remember the good things about our time with Mourinho.

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.