Quotes About Letting go

Rest here with me a moment," he said, "and let the world go to hell.

The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth… and the ambitions they had… and the pleasures they had… and the things they suffered… and the people they loved. They get weaned away from earth—that's the way I put it—weaned away.

If I could remove fear from my life, uproot it, who would I be? she wonders. What would it feel like to live for today and let the future remain in the future? How much lighter her burdens would seem.

P.S. The older I get, the more I wonder if the secret to true happiness is knowing which dreams to let go of.

When we grieve, we naturally allow ourselves to feel the anger, hurt, disorientation, and sadness that are a part of processing pain. As we grieve, we let go of some of our hypervigilance. When we understand that feeling these feelings are part of the healing process, and that by feeling them we can allow them to dissipate, we begin to see light at the end of the tunnel.

If I forgive, I'll no longer feel angry at the person for what happened. In my experience, anger can still come up, but when it does, we remind ourselves that we've decided it isn't worth it to hold on to it any longer.

The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition. Even in my feeble mental state, I knew that any hope for survival hinged upon my ability to break free from the windowless cubicle inside my head. But breaking free meant letting go - a skill that required guts - and guts were visceral assets of which I believed I was 99 percent void

There is no reason to have something taking up space in your closet that does not make you feel good. These items must go. Perhaps you like to torture yourself by trying on some jeans from a few years ago to see if you can button them. Clothes do not exist to humiliate their owners. Please do not force garments into performing psychological tasks for which they were not designed.

I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules.

I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature.

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.

I think I've learned, really, just how to let go - if an idea doesn't work, or it's not perfect, that's O.K.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

The obsession that you have to manage everything - it's really bad.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

I've learned not to worry about what might come next.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed

Forgiveness is about letting go of the past and not holding on to it

You will forgive because you love yourself so much that you don't want to keep hurting yourself for whatever happened. Whatever happened is done and cannot be changed. And we have to accept that and keep going with our life. — Don Miguel Ruiz

When we hold secrets it creates shame, and shame is a great barrier to success because when you carry the shame you do not allow yourself to fulfill your greatest potential, you do not honour the truth of yourself, you do not honour what is your highest self. When you let go of the secret allows you to live to your full potential.

You will forgive because you love yourself so much that you don't want to keep hurting yourself for whatever happened. Whatever happened is done and cannot be changed. And we have to accept that and keep going with our life. — Don't Miguel Ruiz