Quotes About Letting go

Love brings up everything unlike itself so that you can let go of fear and be the loving person you truly are.

people "who don't have a chance to take revenge are forced, in a sense, to move on and focus on something different.

If we sincerely before the Lord plan out our day along the lines suggested and carry it out to the best of our ability, we can and must leave it there. We should refuse to get into the bondage about what has not been done. —J. Oswald Sanders

Jesus tells her not to cling to him—"Do not hold on to me." One cannot hold on to the dead; a new kind of relationship has to be established. Much of what Jesus does in the

Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly the falling part, and not being sure what was at the bottom. But I did know. Now was what was at the bottom. I was already there.

One of the implications of letting go of managing and controlling others is that you must relinquish the identity of being helpful, but ironically, that very act of letting go is frequently the single most helpful thing you can do for the one you love. The identity of being helpful is an ego trip, if you really want to be helpful let go of his problems and help yourself.

Nelson Mandela wrote, 'As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

And never regret what has happened in the past?

Give up the drop, become the ocean.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness. And most of the things we so concern ourselves with about never actually happen.

My life became so much simpler and meaningful when I left the baggage of my past behind.

your past is a servant that has made you all you now are—not a companion to spend much time with in your present or a friend to carry into your spotless future. It's impossible to enter the magic that each fresh morning brings if parts of you are holding on to old disappointments, resentments and hurts.

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

when you bear a grudge against someone, it is almost as if you carry that person around on your back with you. He drains you of your energy, enthusiasm and peace of mind.

him, you get him off your back and you can move on with the rest of your life.

La carga de mi dolor del pasado no la traslado a mi estupendo presente ni a mi fantástico futuro.

the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future

don't let the pain of an imperfect past hinder the glory of your fabulous future

Fundamental personal change is often painful because it is so very transformational. And we cannot become everything we are meant to be without leaving behind who we once were.

It was almost a relief, no longer having to be extraordinary. To give up on existential questioning and simply abide.

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

You're better off without me. And I don't want to be around when you realize it.

So, Art [Green] said, it's hard to do Judaism and travel light. Judaism is not mostly about letting go, but mostly about attachment to God, through attachment to tradition, attachment to forms.

The willingness to let go of what we know you might even call an expression of faith. Faith: not that things will work out as we hope, but faith, simply, in life and its extraordinary intelligence that never fails to surprise. While belief holds on tightly, faith lets go.