Quotes About Letting go

My old age is a precious gift. My brain still works. I like my brain. I feel lighter. I am free of self-doubt, irrational desires, useless complexes, and other deadly sins that are not worth the trouble. I am letting go…letting go. I should have started earlier.

Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway?

especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly.

His house of cards had collapsed, and he lay among the ruins—but he was free. He felt euphoric, weightless, years younger. The only thing he missed was Indiana, but she too belonged to the past; she too had been carried off by the wind.

Hay que olvidar agravios y sacudirse la negatividad; se requiere más energía para el rencor y la ira que para perdonar. Y la clave de la felicidad es perdonar a los demás y perdonarse a sí misma.

Tú eres tu propio enemigo, Ryan. Empieza por perdonarte, si no te perdonas vas a vivir siempre prisionero del pasado, castigado por la memoria, que es subjetiva.

In brief, I am in a splendid moment of my destiny. This is good news for women in general: Life gets easier once we get through menopause and are done with raising kids, but only if we minimize our expectations, give up resentment, and relax in the knowledge that no one, except those closest to us, gives a damn about who we are or what we do. Stop pretending, faking it, lamenting, and flagellating ourselves about silly stuff. We have to love ourselves a lot and love others without calculating

I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.

Voy dejando ir, voy soltando…

No hagas un inventario de lo que te falta, mamá, sino de lo que tienes», decía. Según ella, esa era una oportunidad única de sanar el cuerpo y sanar la mente, desprenderse de la carga innecesaria

amor como el mejor remedio: dar amor a manos llenas. Hay que olvidar agravios y sacudirse la negatividad; se requiere más energía para el rencor y la ira que para perdonar. Y la clave de la felicidad es perdonar a los demás y perdonarse a sí misma. Los últimos

I didn't know what to do in my happy state. I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft.

Things past redress are now with me past care.

If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

If you can't help it, don't think about it.

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.