Quotes About Letting go

You have some great sadness about you. I don't know where it comes from or what form it takes but you must pass through it and leave it behind. --- Some things are simpler to say that to do.

She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.

When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself, not on the thoughts. Thoughts are endless and self-reinforcing, and they only breed more thoughts. Thoughts are merely rationalizations of the mind to try and explain the presence of the feeling. The real reason for the feeling is the accumulated pressure behind the feeling that is forcing it to come up in the moment. The thoughts or external events are only an excuse made up by the mind.

Dejar ir implica ser consciente de un sentimiento, dejarlo crecer, permanecer en él y permitir que siga su curso sin querer que sea diferente ni hacer nada con relación a él.

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it.

It is resistance that keeps the feeling going. When you give up resisting or trying

When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself, not on the thoughts.

Another way is to surrender the feelings we have about what we want from the other person, and let go of the pressures we are putting on them in the form of expectation and desire.

Sometimes we surrender a feeling and we notice that it returns or continues. This is because there is more of it yet to be surrendered

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the energy behind it.

To handle the fear of loss, we have to look at what purpose the external person or object serves in our life. What emotional need is being fulfilled? What emotions would arise were we to lose the object or the person? Loss can be anticipated, and we can handle the various fears associated with the sense of loss by disassembling the emotional complexes that they represent, and letting go of the individual component feelings.

Another thing that dissipates anger is our mere willingness to relinquish it. Willingness is our overall decision to find a better way, to stop relying on anger, and to move up to courage and acceptance. This willingness already starts the process of relinquishing anger.

We must forget past failures," he advised in one of his sermons, "for many times we forget the things of today in lamenting the failures of the past.… Some men regret the last rays of the setting sun, while others look toward the east for the first light of dawn.

He had a gift for seizing joy, grabbing opportunities, and holding on to things that matter. And he had an unusual knack for an even more difficult task: letting go of all the rest.

Let it go and Hold on! In the way of so many great philosophies, those apparent opposites prove to be two sides of the same coin. To hold securely to the well-formed purposes of your own will, you must let go of the vain idea that you can control people or events or the tides of fate. You can't change what was, nor entirely control what will be. But you can choose who you are and what you stand for and what you will try to accomplish.

All of life is an act of letting go but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it

Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all baggage here on the roadside and walk into the blackness.

Porque el divorcio es eso: quitarle cosas que no ya no necesita a una persona a la que ya no quieres.

This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. ~ Archie Jones

Det är det som är en skilsmässa: man tar saker man inte längre vill ha från människor man inte längre älskar.

This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from the people you no longer love.

It was his fourth trip to the attic in so many days, ferrying out the odds and ends of a marriage to his new flat, and the Hoover was amongst the very last items he reclaimed – one of the most broken things, most ugly things, the things you demand out of sheer bloody-mindedness because you have lost the house. This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love