Letting Go Quotes

Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

Each exhale allows us to let go of the moment that has just passed.

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

Some things take root in the brain and just don’t let go.

Love means knowing when to let go.

You have to let go of the past to have a better future, and you do that through love and family.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.

Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.

Sometimes the only way to keep love, is to let it go.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

I don’t want to say I’ll be back at the top of my game because everybody’s gonna think I’m crazy and it’s the old player not letting go sort of thing, but that’s what it’s gonna be.

I don't know why she picked me, but she did and I'm not letting go.

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

Unbinding the Heart really means to bring awareness to those areas we have restricted in our hearts and start to let go, open up, and practice staying open no matter what happens or doesn't happen.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go

Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.

We generally look around for what is not there fretting over it and thus letting go of what is there.

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

There is true freedom in letting go.

People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?

He judged the instant and let go; he flung himself loose into the stars.

Pink Champagne is about having fun and letting go, and living your life to the fullest!

..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.

I just plug in and let go.

Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.