Quotes About Letting go

The best way to let go is to notice the thoughts as they come up and to acknowledge them.

The only sure path is to live consciously, moment to moment, as you let go of the outcome.

Instead of trying to freeze the present moment and hang on to it, we need to remember that life is a process of constantly letting go. The ego wants dependable rituals and people who stay the same. But to be free means that we enjoy this touch, this kiss, this sunrise, and then let it go. This is sometimes described as not letting the ground under your feet get too solid, not grasping for security or predictability.

If we allow ourselves to be exactly where we are in the moment—fully present, noticing whatever is happening inside us and outside us—we can trade in judgment, fear, and shame for curiosity and fascination. Through awareness we start easing our demands, expectations, rituals, and self-grasping. We

The task for staying unstuck is to stay unattached to the outcome and not look back with regret.

My feeling is, if a dog is that hard up to break free, let it go. It's like a boyfriend who wants to break up. We all know the old adage "If you set someone free, and he never comes back, then he was never yours." I understand the main fear with setting dogs loose is they could get hit by a car, but so could an ex boyfriend. That's just a chance you have to take.

All of life's conflicts are between letting go or holding on, opening into the present or clinging to the past, expansion or contraction.

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.

Life's too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what's right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free.

But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn't mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again. Forgiveness means you've found a way forward that acknowledges harm done and hurt caused without letting either your anger or your pain rule your life or define your relationship with the one who did you wrong.

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back. I

it with their fingers out of my hands,

How wild it is, to let it be.

Letting go of expectation when it comes to one's children is close to impossible. The entire premise of our love for them has to do with creating, fostering, and nurturing people who will outlive us. To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.

Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

I strongly encourage you to let go of these beliefs. They are inaccurate and melodramatic and they do not serve you.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore. ? Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

I suggest you forget about forgiveness for now and strive for acceptance instead.

There are plenty of things in the world to be sad about. But a boy who doesn't love you shouldn't be one of them.

Sometimes those we forgive continue being the jackasses that they always were and we accept them while keeping them approximately three thousand miles away from our wedding receptions.