Quotes About Letting go

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to do something.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

With renunciation life begins.

No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.

Groan and forget it.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Do nothing. Do nothing. Let it happen. Don't try.