Quotes About Letting go

Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's business—even your own life is not your business. It is also God's business!' Frederick Buechner

One must begin somewhere, sometime, to let go of the bitterness, or be eaten alive and the marrow sucked out.

I think you could say I came to the end of myself. I really did want a show all my own, and he had to hammer me pretty hard to make me see that it was all his. We don't like relinquishing the power we never had anyway, even though running the show ourselves never works. I surrendered everything to him. What did I have to lose?

In every way, un-forgiveness makes us the victim—

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. When you let God fill you with His love and forgiveness, the things you think you desperately want to hold on to start falling away  . . . and we hardly notice their passing.

Leave it alone. Let God handle it.

If you are in search of happiness, make sure that your journey is free from things that get you caught up in the past. If your path is blocked by stuff that makes you remember things that do not help you move on, then it is about time to let go.

Los lugares que no te funcionan son mucho más difíciles de abandonar".

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Enlightenment is the total sense of freedom that comes from letting go of the concept of being an individual "self".

In meditation practice, we learn to let go of the thoughts and fantasies that block the direct intuitive experience of who and what we really are. Our constant mental activity is what maintains the illusion of a separate self, and this effort makes us weary.

life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing

He's gorgeous because he's mine, but he won't be mine for long. Our children become part of the world so fast, and it's our job to prepare them, transition them, our job to love them and gracefully step back and let them go….

True creativity comes from enjoying the moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn't help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.

This section of the book contains the how-to of unhooking from the past and living in the present, all the while being mindful of the future.

Love is a muscle that gets stronger with exercise, and there is no more demanding exercise than letting go.

There was no use grieving over what might have been

Some cases aren't yours to solve.

Dance comes naturally to us when we're little but fades when we get older. Too many people let the stresses of life get them wound up. I think there's something to be said for cutting loose and having a good time. And hey, people even danced in Bible days.

May you never forget what is worth remembering, Nor ever remember what is best forgotten. Irish proverb

It's going to sound so cliché, but you've got to stop trying to fix everything." She put a hand up. "I know, I know—this coming from the fix-it queen. But you were never meant to hold all things together. Only God can do that.

When you hold fast to your morals while dating, you'll also notice the relationships often end of a different note. If a guy is in agreement with your standards but things end up working out between you, the end doesn't taste as bitter. It's easier to let go. Stick to your standards, because if a woman needs to lower her morals in order to find love, then it is not love that she has found.