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Quotes About Letting go

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way
~ Thomas Merton
For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.
~ Ralph Blum
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
~ Vernon Howard
You have the power to let power go
~ Kanye West
To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.
~ Marshall Sylver
The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.
~ Robert Mandel
A wise man once said, 'Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you'll lose it. But let it come & go & you'll always be connected to it.'
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The fastest way to get lost is to go on a guilt trip!
~ Stephen Richards
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."
~ Byron Katie
As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
~ F.B. Meyer
Help me give up my addiction to Hope.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
Centering prayer is a training in letting go.
~ Thomas Keating
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
~ Harold Brodkey
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
~ George Herbert
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
~ Confucius
It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
~ Frances Conroy
But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.
~ Joshua Harris
Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.
~ Wayne Dyer
If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.
~ Yehuda Berg
All conflict comes from attachment.
~ Anthony de Mello
If you love someone, set them free.
~ Sting
When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?
~ Sarah Jessica Parker