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Quotes About Letting go

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.
~ James Alan Gardner
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?
~ Laozi
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.
~ Tom Hanks
I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
~ Stephen Sondheim
Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning
~ Evy Michaels
You can't become who you're supposed to be if you keep looking back on what might have been." - Alexis
~ Candace Knoebel
We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity.
~ Jay Woodman
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
~ George Carlin
I think we agree, THE PAST IS OVER.
~ George W. Bush
I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Eventually, you're gonna have to let someone in.
~ Cassia Leo, Anti-Romance
If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ...
~ Jim Brault
Forget about weird Boy and move on
~ Laura J. Burns
Forthwith I crush this acid lemonFreeing myself of the malefic venomHither I let thee rottenLet my curse be forgotten.
~ Camilla Isley, I Wish for You
There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.
~ Lester Levenson
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.
~ Rajneesh
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
~ Lao Tzu
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
~ C. S. Lewis
The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
~ Ajahn Chah
The secret of happiness is renunciation.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
~ Nelson Mandela