Quotes About Letting go

Then, like anything else that can't be understood, that can't be influenced, we let it go by.

I'm not saying this to be mean, Estelle, but this is not your day. I'm sorry. You have to let go and let things change.

It was time for me to practice relaxing about the things I couldn't control.

Joseph Campbell that says something like "We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

You can't make somebody leave and you can't make them stay.

If a person comes into our life, they will go again. In a parting of ways, or because everyone dies. They will die or you will die. Nothing we receive in this life are we allowed to keep.

August remembered Harvey's words, and when he said good-bye he silently let them go. Released them into their own lives. He wished for their father to stay out of trouble, even if it meant he'd never see the boys again. Because that's just what you do. You let go.

Because, really . . . how was she ever going to be happy if she couldn't learn to let things like that be?

I look back because I felt at home with May and Everett, as much as I ever have anywhere. I don't want that time to be gone. But it is gone, and even if I had not left, still it would be gone. Only for the time I was meant to be there could I feel so at peace.

I'm just advising you to let go of the hate in yourself, because you're the one swallowing that poison every day, not him.

soon I stopped talking. It felt good to stop. Even though I know I said it was very important, what I was saying. But after a minute it didn't seem so important anymore, and that was a relief.

You're grown--crooked and backbent, but grown--and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

POOR Catullus, 'tis time you should cease your folly, and account as lost what you see is lost.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

do not dwell any more on things in the past that you cannot change.

Wat weg is, ben je kwijt.

Giving up control is often confused with giving up.

The problem is that we like to control everything: a stupid, pointless, unhealthy idea. We need to have the opposite attitude, accept the fact that nobody really has any control over his or her own life: that was what the barman Nicola, from the Caffè Bohème, had said to him once.

The Book of Eights' emphasis is on overcoming any longing for any form of future rebirth.

We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference between the two can make all the difference in the end.

Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go.

You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.