Quotes About Letting go

You have described only too well, replied the Master, where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so, you have no choice but to call forth something yourself that ought to happen independently of you, and so long as you call it forth your hand will not open in the right way--like the hand of a child.

The hand that stretches the bow must open like a child's hand opens. What sometimes hinders the precision of the shot is the archer's over-active will. He thinks: What I fail to do will not be done, and that's not quite how things work. Man should always act, but he must also let other forces of the universe act in their own due time.

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.

This man accepted his loss a long time ago, now he's just trying to make sure it's okay to put it all to rest.

Want to give up saving the world and come play with me?" There is something utterly fearless about her that I admire. While I've been fretting about how to put my skills to better use for humanity and almost dying or getting imprisoned in the process, here's a free spirit who's decided to let the world figure its own shit out while she has a blast making a fortune's worth of fuck-you money.

I'd realized that the surest way forward was to burn all the bridges behind.

I ask everybody here present for forgiveness. With the exception of the noble lady Yennefer, whom I thank, but ask for nothing. Farewell.

I realize today that it is impossible to fight an enemy living in my head. By forgiving myself, I erase the doubts, fears, and frustration that have kept my past in the present. From this day forward, my history will cease to control my destiny. I have forgiven myself. My life has just begun. I will forgive even those who do not ask for forgiveness. I will forgive those who criticize me unjustly. I will forgive myself. I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit.

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

Here's a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don't even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren't even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Shame is a hold that sin uses on you. As long as you're ashamed of the sin, it has a hold on you. When you can name it and walk away from it, you're walking in the power of God. That's what the Lord wants from His people. Sin and shame have no place in the life of a man or woman of God.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I want to forget everything and start again.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn't work anymore. In fact, they'd never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world's more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

You cannot look back and think what if.

I have containers and containers of clothes that I've hoarded in my attic, and I probably should give them away to give good use, but I am selfishly wanting to hold on it because I'm like, 'What if I need that?'

It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

The older I get the more laid back I am about whatever happens, happens.

I don't spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.