Quotes About Letting go

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

If you let go of the things you're addicted to, your pains will let go of you.

When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let go. Surrender all attachments to people and things that you have been struggling to hold on to.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. —NELSON MANDELA

Feelings come and they pass. Whatever we are feeling in any given moment is just a passing experience. Our work is to learn to accept what we feel and to learn to let it pass.

Forgiveness frees the forgiver.

Stop chasing things that are beneath the truth of who you are. Stop holding on to things and people that weigh you down. Stop behaving in ways that don't honor the divinity and nobility within you.

There is a healing power to releasing what was that allows you to receive what is and will always be—more than enough.

No matter what, "I forgive everyone for everything!

You have to accept that you can't change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours.

The biggest choice for me was surrendering the need to understand.

I let forgiveness rest upon all things. Then forgiveness will be given to me.

suffered, to forgive the one who inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. —MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

yourself, from whom you need forgiveness. Once you have completed the letter, you are encouraged to transform it by burning it, burying in, tearing it into pieces, flushing it, or deleting it from your computer. With any of these actions, you are not destroying the letter. Instead, you are transforming it and the energy it carries.

longer than it was necessary or productive to do so.

The story was no longer important to tell.

there comes a point where a person's psycho-social history is of little or no consequence.

When you are able to share those things that you consider precious to you, their hold over you diminishes. Unshackled by the love of possessions that have no meaning, you are free to search for a happiness based on love and compassion for other people rather than things. Interacting

Put the past behind you - that's what people always said. But those people didn't get that the past was always behind you. Like a hound on the scent.

Put the past behind you—that's what people always said. But those people didn't get that the past was always behind you. Like a hound on the scent.

Gracias por venir, Simón, pero no debes volver. Tienes que dejarme hacer lo que debo hacer.

Dejarme ir a mí misma, dejarte ir a ti, dejar ir a una casa todavía llena de recuerdos: es duro, pero voy aprendiendo

Letting go meant you accepted what couldn't be changed. You didn't try to hold on to hope in order to coerce a change in fortune...nor did you battle against superior forces of fate and try to make them capitulate to your will...nor did you beg for salvation because you assumed you knew better. Letting go meant you stared at what was before you with clear eyes, recognizing that unfettered choice was the exception and destiny the rule.

Could the past be like this, he wondered, looking around at the empty clearing. A structure in your mind that you could burn down and get free of.