Quotes About Letting go

Stoicism doesn't mean repressing emotion and shunning pleasure, I learned, but, in essence, focusing on what is within our power and letting go of everything we can't control.

Surrender the body and its members, physical faculties, property, reputation, office, honours, children, siblings – repudiate them all.

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness.

If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way. Whenever distress or displeasure arises in your mind, remind yourself, "This is only my interpretation, not reality itself." Then ask whether it falls within or outside your sphere of power. And, if it is beyond your power to control, let it go.

Sometimes you have to let people change and grow on their own, you have to back off and hope it turns out for the best.

The boy bent his head lower. "I don't want any," he said in a whisper. "Oh, dogs, dogs, dogs," his mother flared. Her voice rose in anger again. "All this trouble over one dog. Well, if ye ask me, I'm glad Lassie's gone. That I am. As much trouble to take care of as a child! Now she's gone, and it's done with, and I'm glad – I am. I'm glad!

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.

There are a lot of hard things in this world," he said. "You don't need to beat yourself up over something that's out of your control.

No easy thing, letting go. The pain I carried in my heart was constant and at times served as a comfort and a touchstone

Letting go is a very hard thing," he said. "Grief and guilt, even loneliness, can become a comfort. A touchstone. The road behind us, littered as it is with mistakes and heartache, can often be more appealing than the open road in front of us.

Grudges are like superstitions. You know they don't make sense, but you cling to them, anyway." We

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

The grief loosens its jaw from my neck but doesn't let go.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Our greatest salvation comes when we learn to let go and forgive the people in our past.

La riqueza no se mide por las cosas que se poseen sino por aquellas de las que sabemos prescindir.

He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to a mercenary.

A birthday is a good time to begin anew; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them on again.

Accept that there were some things you could not change and some things that you should.

Children had to learn to hate—adults had to learn to let go of it.

It's okay," he said quietly. "We break one or two every year. They were Mommy's—it's like she gives us a way to let her slip out of our minds.

It's like we made promises last night, and you're not sure you can keep them." "Yeah," Carson confessed, his lips brushing Dale's chest. Dale pulled him tight against his chest and dropped a kiss on his hair. "Don't be scared, baby. We'll find a way. I'm not a fan of letting go.

then let him go, losing himself in the Zen of pain control once more.