Quotes About Letting go

Don't be afraid to let someone go if it's not working. You're not a bad boss. You're not a bad CEO.

When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.

I tend to let the chips fall where they may. I don't know if that's right or wrong.

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Surrender to the flow.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

But he understood it was over, and he felt able to let her go. He was sure their life together had happened in the way he said it had. But it was something that had passed. And that passing--though it seemed impossible and he'd fought against it--would become part of him now, too, as surely as anything else he'd left behind.

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone. It will come less frequently and after a time, be gone.

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by a unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back, Or you can let it go and move forward

He'll get over it,' said his father. 'But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone. It will come less frequently and after a time, be gone.

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice. For those who live centuries, it's a very important choice.

Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down the ugly weight of old suffering, untie yourself from the awful, and walk away from it.

Of course to forget the past is to lose the sense of loss that is also memory of an absent richness and a set of clues to navigate the present by; the are is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

Like a life, a journey assumes a shape and a meaning that are only clear afterward, and like a journey, a life requires that you learn to let go of the plan when the actuality departs from it, to embrace what's arriving, let go of what's departing, to move forward and not get stuck. You can cover the same ground with entirely different purposes.

Auch die Sinnfrage stellt sich mir nicht mehr. Weil ich loszulassen gelernt habe. Wer den Sinn immerzu sucht, weil er abhandengekommen ist, wird ihn ebenso wenig finden wie das Glück. Beide sind verwurzelt und flüchtig zugleich. In uns selbst.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you. "Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high..." "Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.