Quotes About Letting go

Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate, , , The obliteration of memory.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

Don't stumble over something behind you.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

The best way to be with your spirit is to forgive.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

I believe the day is done. Whether it's been the best day or the worst, it's over; let it go.

This world is like a dog's curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.

Mama, unforgivingness breeds war; exploited resentment, treasured grievances. If we don't learn to forget a wrong no sooner than it's done or said, if we don't all of us—privately and collectively—draw a line below the past every day of our lives, we're going to be sunk. We are sunk.

There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Fear doesn't frighten me as much as it used to. I know it's from clinging, and I know it will pass [p. 29].

Life is easier without imperatives.

For me, the 'ask' is similar to squeezing or crumbling pastry, but in the next nano-second I am releasing the crumbs back

It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.