Quotes About Letting go

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.

I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.

I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

I don't own a watch anymore. Literally, that was an addiction. I'm not afraid to admit that. It took me over. My possessions possessed me.

One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

I try not to think about the things I can't control.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.

I don't talk about the past.

frequently we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know.

If we are to progress in the spiritual walk so that the Disciplines are a blessing and not a curse, we must come to the place in our lives where we can lay down the everlasting burden of always needing to manage others.

we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know. God has to help us let go of our tiny vision in order to release the greater good he has in store for us.

To enter solitude, we must disregard what others think of us. Who will understand this call to aloneness? Even our closest friends will see it as a waste of precious time and rather self-centered. But, oh, the liberty that is released in our hearts when we let go of the opinions of others!

What freedom corresponds to submission? It is the ability to lay down the terrible burden of always needing to get our own way. The obsession to demand that things go the way we want them to go is one of the greatest bondages in human society today.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

By learning to let go and to allow the world and fellow human beings to be who and what they truly are, a disciple frees her or himself to love—to the death.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.