Quotes About Letting go

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

Your past must die for your future to live.

His key insight was that yearning, or wishing things were different than they are, is the root of all suffering, and that letting go of this desire is the secret to happiness.

At the risk of sounding like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite who can't let go of the past

Forgiving other people is great practice for forgiving yourself when the time comes.

There is no point spending an entire life trying to win the love you didn't feel when you needed it. You sometimes just have to let go of an old story and start your own. Give yourself some love. You can't change the past. You can't change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.

Don't worry about things you can't control.

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

Room Imagine forgiving yourself completely. The goals you didn't reach. The mistakes you made. Instead of locking those flaws inside to define and repeat yourself, imagine letting your past float through your present and away like air through a window, freshening a room. Imagine that.

there comes a time when you have to put the dead to rest, Philip. When you have to trust the living instead.

When there is nothing we can do about something, the point of worry begins to diminish. "Everybody dies," wrote Nora Ephron." There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day.

4. There is absolutely nothing in the past that you can change. That's basic physics.

As Ayishat Akanbi put it, 'If you've decided your healing is dependent on other people acknowledging their faults you'll still be waiting in your grave.

You don't stop the rain by telling it to stop. Sometimes you just have to let it pour, let it soak you to your skin.

To be is to let go

Nu-ti irosi viata facandu-ti griji pentru lucrurile pe care le ratezi. N-as vrea sa sune ca o insemnare budista - desi, de acord, e oarecum budista-, dar viata nu e despre a fi fericit cu ceea ce faci, ci despre a fi fericit cu ceea ce esti.

The Book of Regrets 'Every regret you have ever had, since the day you were born, is recorded in here

And it was different because, above all other things, that heavy and painful Book of Regrets had been successfully burnt to dust.

When I let go of what I am,' said the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, 'I become what I might be.

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

You don't punish anyone other than yourself by keeping hate inside you.

Past and future were myths. The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it, the future would have turned into the present. The present was all there was. The ever-moving, ever-changing present. And the present was fickle. It could only be caught by letting go.

Sometimes we cannot control our world and hold it too tightly without squeezing some of the life from it.

For roughly the millionth time in his life he asked himself, Is there any way I can just ignore this and get on with my day? and he reflected that it was the minor slights that were the hardest to let pass.