Quotes About Letting go

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Holding on to anger and resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but more than that, we must leave them there. ~Hannah Whittall Smith

Forgive and Move on As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. ISABELLE HOLLAND Award-winning author of 28 books

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never yours to begin with.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring for them in a flexible and wise way. In meditation, we pay attention to our body with care and respect.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

To protect the separate self, we push certain things away, while to bolster it we hold on to other things and identify with them. A

Trying to hold onto "how it was" will only create suffering and disappointment, because life is a river and everything changes.

The truth is that things change whether we want them to or not. Becoming attached to things as they are or pushing things away that we do not like does not stop them from changing. It only leads to further suffering.

Forgiveness is a vow not to carry bitterness into the future...to decide to give up hope for a better past.

Letting go is a central theme in spiritual practice, as we see the preciousness and brevity of life. When letting go is called for, if we have not learned to do so, we suffer greatly, and when we get to the end of our life, we may have what is called a crash course. Sooner or later we have to learn to let go and allow the changing mystery of life to move through us without our fearing it, without holding and grasping. I

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

If we learn to be aware of feelings without grasping or aversion, then they can move through us like changing weather, adn we can be free to feel them and move on like the wind.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how greatly you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding and gradual training. Ongoing spiritual practice can help us cultivate a new way of relating to life in which we let go of our battles. When

Meditation is a practice that can teach us to enter each moment with wisdom, lightness, and a sense of humor. It is an art of opening and letting go, rather than accumulation or struggle. Then, even within our frustrations and difficulties, a remarkable inner sense of support and perspective can grow.

To be able to forget means sanity.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

She left behind her giant M, she's not getting my cabinet" -Toby