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Quotes About Letting go

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.
~ Nhat Hanh
You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
~ Eric Clapton
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
~ Bruce Lee
Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
~ Phil Jackson
Finish every day and be done with it.
~ John C. Maxwell
He who is attached to things will suffer much.
~ Laozi
Some say you forgive and forget. Not true. You can't forget but you walk forward in forgiveness.
~ Johnny Hunt
The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out.
~ J. Loren Norris
Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living.
~ Christina Perri
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.
~ John Welwood
Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.
~ Penney Peirce
Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.
~ Peter Ralston
I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!
~ Nehali Lalwani
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
~ Joseph Campbell
Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.
~ Joel Osteen
The secret of life is... everything is out of control.
~ Ajahn Brahm
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
~ Marlon Brando
You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won't hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.
~ Priscilla Shirer
All life is temporary Why worry about anything that's only temporary
~ Gautama Buddha
A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
~ John Hancock
What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
~ Louise Erdrich
You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river's flow!
~ Mooji
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You're just telling yourself the story of how it doesn't.
~ Byron Katie