Quotes About Letting go

A person carrying a grudge who can't forgive is only hurting themself.

We don't try to force things to go the way we think they should. We give up trying to fit square pegs into round holes. Instead, we yield ourselves, trusting that, even if we do not like what we hear, we are safe to surrender to the larger context of our lives, trusting ultimately that all is well. Herein lies inner peace.

the one thing we do know for sure is that the relationship you once shared—the one that was clearly not working for one or both of you—has to die.

Feel the feelings. Drop the story. PEMA CHODRON

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. C. S. LEWIS

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. KAHLIL GIBRAN

Transformation often begins with what we're willing to subtract from our lives, rather than what we're trying to add.

If you are operating under the illusion that you can continue to hold on to people who you know are not good for you, and still create an extraordinary life filled with love and fulfillment, then you are fooling yourself. Toxic ties cost us and they cost us big time. If you are feeling stuck in your life, look to see who or what it is that you are stuck to.

Most of us are living as though life were happening to us rather than through us. We are not present to the fact that we are constantly generating our lives, as though they were great works of art. The tools we are given from which to create are our thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, actions, decisions, and words. Love is letting go of fear. —Gerald Jampolsky

The more I let go of the life I'd

The more I let go of the life I'd planned, the more I began to love the life I had.

The truth is that there is always more love and that releasing even the most amazing love is not the end of love for you. You have more love to experience for as long as you live.

that regret, the anger – well, it's like holding your breath. It ends up suffocating you. I had to let it go.

let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. —James Thurber

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

Even if your children ever come home, they really aren't yours anymore." -Leia Organa Solo

I want to hold on tight to everything and everyone I cherished and, at the same time, saw in a way I never had before that living on this earth, growing older, and growing up in the true sense of the word is really about learning how to let go.

When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. ~Allen Walker

if I've learned anything through all this, it's that you can't build walls around the people you care about. You can't do it to keep them near or to keep them safe. Even if they could stand the prison, that kind of control is still an illusion. To fate, the walls are made of air

You enjoy things less when you are always trying to control things instead of just living.

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart.

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?