Quotes About Letting go

Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.

What's done is done, and what's the point of getting so stressed about things that you cannot change?

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

Whatever strikes I need to throw, I need to let them go.

Maybe when I was a kid, when you have those crazy dreams about what music is going to be like - a string of No. 1 hits, a limo, and a fairground in your back garden - and then you start as a musician, and you realize very, very quickly, that's not how things work. So I just let go of all that stuff.

Sometimes it's not always perfect, and there are mistakes, and you pick yourself up and move on. I've learned you can't be a perfectionist. I still strive to do my best in every area, but I've learned to let go.

As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a strong body, you will be deeply served by letting go of those familiar limitations.

I've evolved as a human being, and I've taken more risks. I've let go of judgment. I don't know when the best stuff is coming - I sink into the process in a different way. I paint more, and my vision is stronger, but I don't think my music is better, because nothing is ever better than your first material.

If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.

Er woekert een hardnekkig misverstand, bij kenners en bij leken, dat schrijven 'bewaren' betekent. Het is natuurlijk andersom. Schrijven is vernielen, bij gebrek aan beter. Waar je over schrijft gaat pas dan en juist daardoor voorbij. Literatuur is loslaten. Schrijven is verdrijven.

Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer — that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with people you'd left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. Not because you didn't love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.

Trying to forget someone you loved is like trying to remember someone you never knew.