Quotes About Letting go

I believe that clutching tightly to a person or thing, or forcing my will on any given situation eliminates the possibility of my Higher Power doing anything constructive about the situation, the person, or me. My controlling blocks God's power. It blocks other people's ability to grow. It stops events from happening naturally. It prevents me from enjoying people or events.

Seek balance in your life. Learn when it's time to let go, and learn when it's time to act.

When should we detach? When we can't stop thinking, talking about, or worrying about someone or something; when our emotions are churning and boiling; when we feel like we have to do something about someone because we can't stand it another minute; when we're hanging on by a thread, and it feels like that single thread is frayed; and when we believe we can no longer live with the problem we've been trying to live with. It is time to detach! You

Letting go is the action part of faith. It is a behavior that gives God and the Universe permission to send us what we're meant to have.

Caroline smiled and waved and blew kisses to both of them as she exited the building. But once outside she felt sad and let down, like the party was over and it was time to go home. And yet she remembered her promise to God. She was going to trust that he knew what was best for her.

Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one that put it there.

Mummy says not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him," the child persisted. "Even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven. She says not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one that put it there.

How to forgive when you really didn't want to? Convince yourself that you do, of course.

One of the first things we have to let go of is not being able to let go of anybody.

There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

I had the strength to rebel, but I did not have the strength to let go.

Cynicism is the greatest barrier to love. It is rooted in doubt and despair. Fear intensifies our doubt. It paralyzes. Faith and hope allow us to let go. Fear stands in the way of love.

To live fully we would need to let go of our fear of dying.

We can never go back. I know that now. We can go forward .We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go of grief about the love we lost long ago...

Without conscious forgiveness there can be no genuine reconciliation. Making amends both to ourselves and to others is the gift compassion and forgiveness offers us. It is a process of emptying out wherein we let go all the waste so that there is a clear place within where we can see the other as ourself.

We can never go back. I know that now. We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago

We can never go back. We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago.

As Proverbs 17:9 reminds us, peace is more likely when one forgets about past wrongs as opposed to reminding others of them.

The dead don't think of the living," Ethan said. "That part of their life is over.

Wenn Ihr den Mist in Eurem Leben schon nicht loslassen könnt, packt ihn wenigstens hinter Euch, dass er Euch nicht andauernd den Blick auf die Zukunft versperrt.

Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be.

Aber irgendwann hörte die Erinnerung an sie auf, mich zu begleiten. Sie blieb zurück, wie eine Stadt zurückbleibt, wenn der Zug weiterfährt. Sie ist da, irgendwo hinter einem, und man könnte hinfahren und sich ihrer versichern. Aber warum sollte man.

No quiero desterrarte de mi vida. Siempre tendrás un lugar en mi corazón, un cofrecillo tuyo y de nadie más ante el que de vez en cuando me detendré para pensar en ti. Pero a hora tengo que cerrar el cofrecillo para poder atender otras cosas. De otro modo, duele demasiado.