Quotes About Letting go

We cannot lose control over something we have no control over

When we go from waking state to sleep, we lose everything that we held in the waking state. Relationships and possessions are lost to us in sleep. We have to let them go.

If you practice, you will only become fatigued. When you are fatigued, you throw away everything. At that instant, you are free. To get rid of everything is freedom. Everything that you do suggests "Get rid of me." To get rid of desires is freedom, freedom from the function of the mind.

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

Jamie knew now that were certain things you had to let go. But that didn't mean they ever had to leave you.

It was time—past time, really—for her to let go of her anger and give herself permission to be her mother's daughter without being afraid that she was going to turn into her.

I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work. Let my skin sink into the armchair and lose its shape. Lose its form. Collapse into a sigh.

I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work.

I felt incapable of making any such effort at the moment. For some reason I had been feeling rather low for nearly a year now. I was more and more inclined to let things go their own way and not excite myself too much. I was in need of rest—why, I do not know.

To forget is good—but hard. To forgive is better.            Best of all is reconciliation.

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

To make peace with yourself, you may have to give up a lot. You may have to give up feeling sorry for yourself, straining to be someone you are not, hiding the parts of yourself you fear are unacceptable, and worrying about what others think.

I've buried all the hatchets. But I know where I've buried them and I can dig them up again if necessary.

She had lost him. Lost him because she'd let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision.

Elle wondered if he had regrets. But she didn't let herself wonder for too long. She had locked her heart up against him, and it would take something extraordinarily strong to break it open.

Letting go of anger and hate requires us to give up the hope for a different past, along with the hope of a fantasized future. What we gain is a life more in the present, where we are not mired in prolonged anger and resentment that doesn't serve us.

Learning to use our anger effectively requires some letting go—letting go of blaming that other person whom we see as causing our problems and failing to provide for our happiness; letting go of the notion that it is our job to change other people or tell them how they should think, feel, behave.

There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering — and even more difficult.

You'll know that whatever happens isn't your problem because you no longer have the responsibility to see that others do what they should.

If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.

The less you strain, the more you relax and let it happen, the more successful you will be. This will make more sense after the first three

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.

but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go"... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened." pg 100 Meredith to Vlad

I don't have any chips on my shoulder. History is history