Quotes About Letting go

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

I don't cry over the past or worry about spilled milk.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

I can't afford to have resentment. I can't afford to be angry. I can't afford these things spiritually or physically.

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you.

It's so important in marriage to let the little things go and let the pride go. Forgiveness is so important, and communication. Don't major on the minors.

I tell you what you'll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.

When fear is taken from you, all else can be taken from you and you will not be angry.

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use

This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world. "Not needing" is a great freedom. It frees you, first, from fear: fear that there is something you won't have; fear that there is something you have that you will lose; and fear that without a certain thing, you won't be happy.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Because, all too often, the things that we're the most resistant to are precisely what we need. And the things we're most scared to let go of are exactly the ones we most need to relinquish. At

Perhaps the people who hurt you the most when they leave are the ones you shouldn't have been with anyway, because they do it without compassion.

Life's too short to be stuck in your own past

In the sex-positive community, I found countless women who were sexually liberated and open, and required only one thing - that they be empowered and in control of the context, because that's how they felt safe enough to truly let go.

For most men, what's tougher than breaking up is the moment when their ex finally falls out of love with them and lets go, perhaps because it triggers a childhood fear—a psychological terror—of losing the first woman whose love they needed: their mother. And so, as Sheila would recommend, I let myself feel the pain, the loneliness, and the fear, using all my strength as the days pass to keep from giving in and reaching out to Ingrid.

Project Hollywood was bringing me out of my solipsistic shell. It was giving me the resources I needed to be a leader; it was teaching me how to walk the tightrope of group dynamics; it was helping me learn to let go of petty things like personal property, solitude, cleanliness, sanity, and sleep.

Rich Miller, Letting Go of Fear (Harvest House Publishers, 2018).

one has to make an effort at a time like that, and a clean break. It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

Leave-takings are stupid things, and best forgotten about as quickly as possible.

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to reinfect yourself. "Let the dead bury the dead" [Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60]. Turn from appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you wish to be.