Quotes About Letting go

This iswhat divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love

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 on into the blackness.

We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't worry about what's to come.

And you must forget what you are—were—I mean, and be happy. When you remember that old life you are bitter, and it hurts me.

I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in order to come back to it and see that it's pretty alright.

It's nice to let some anger out sometimes.

I'm not angry at anyone.

Don't try to anticipate or worry about something you can't control.

Once I argue with somebody, I'm cool; I let it pass. I'm back to playing basketball.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting!

Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

Getting stuck in the past is like guarding a cemetery.

Il n'y a rien de coupable. L'instant n'est pas coupable, c'est seulement de vouloir le retenir qui n'est pas permis. Seul le fait de se cramponner à ce qui ne se laisse pas retenir... (89)

Only a fool trips on what is behind them.

on West End Avenue. Left pretty much all my possessions and just came to New York to start over again.

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it'.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I