Quotes About Letting go

When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

Before I found my peace, I was way too much in my head. I found myself on the field in my own thoughts. I've learned that there's a time and a place for my thoughts. The most important thing when I'm on the field is to just be in the moment and let it all go.

The first and perhaps most important thing to realize about being happier in life is to stop trying to be so happy in life.

Freud put it beautifully: the aim of psychoanalysis is to help the patient let go of the delusional suffering of his neuroses and experience the misery of actual reality.

He had found his monsters, and now was the time to leave them behind.

Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.

You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in.

There it is, they'd say. Over and over - there it is, my friend, there it is - as if the repetition itself were an act of poise, a balance between crazy and almost crazy, knowing without going, there it is, which meant be cool, let it ride, because Oh yeah man, you can't change what can't be changed, there it is, there it absolutely and positively and fucking well is.

The past is the past, Vader said. The present and future are all that matter.

sometimes, you had to let people go for your own sanity, especially when they got so comfortable, they failed to appreciate your worth.

How are we ever going to work this out if you keep rehashing the past, Cali? Or maybe you don't want this to work. Is that it? I'm not your ideal man, so you don't want me anymore. Is that it, Cali?

Dispose of everything that was lost. There's no time to dream about something that won't come back. I must look forward. Forward…

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El pasado no tiene poder sobre el momento presente (Eckhart Tolle)

Then she did what she'd wanted to do for ages. She let it pour.

the chance to leave your old self behind. To take all your mistakes and regrets and erase them from the story. Who wouldn't want that?

He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists' picnic, but he bore down gently, intensifying his concentration, letting go of his attachment to gravity.

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

and how dangerous and dumb it can be to embalm yourself in the attractive amber of the past.

We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. -

I'm leaving everything here. Your records? No. Everything else.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.

For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.