Letting Go Means Quotes

#1. Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

#2. Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

David Sheff

#3. At every point in the human journey we find that we have to let go in order to move forward; and letting go means dying a little. In the process we are being created anew, awakened afresh to the source of our being.

Kathleen R Fischer

#4. It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.

Iyanla Vanzant

#5. Letting go means wanting to move on so you can live.

Selena Haskins

#6. Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere

Cynthia Lord

#7. To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty.

John Daido Loori

#8. Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.

Heidi Priebe

#9. To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

Confucius

#10. Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem.

Mark Hurst

#11. To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I haven't tweeted once in my life, but I'm sick of hearing about it already. What once may have been the cool way of letting a hundred people know that you're about to go mow your lawn now has the feel of a used-to-be-fresh means of communicating. So yesterday, like two-way pagers. And AOL.

John Ridley

#13. Memory is a means of possession, but eventually, the greatest grace is found in letting go.

Michael Perry

#14. Evolution means letting go of our false fundamentals so that God can get into those shadowy places we're not sure we want him to be. It means being okay with being wrong, okay with not having all the answers, okay with never being finished.

Rachel Held Evans

#15. Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

Shinjo Ito

#16. [D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

Stephen Levine

#17. Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, nor does it mean approving of, what someone did. It just means that you're letting go of the anger toward that person.

Frank Sonnenberg

#18. Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#19. I love you, and I want you to be happy, I want you to have the life you deserve. And if that means ... if that means I have to stand here and watch you walk away, then I'll do it. I won't be happy about it. It'll break my heart. But ... if that's what you really need, then we're done.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#20. Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while.

Stephen Richards

#21. [Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again.
[Mark] What does 'c-word' mean?
[Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don't feel it. Not letting go even when you can't find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end.

Pat Cadigan

#22. Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing ... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.

Pope Francis

#23. Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

John Ortberg

#24. The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing. So that I'm letting go of the pain means I'm also letting go of the love.

Daria Snadowsky

#25. Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#26. Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

Melissa Marr

#27. As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

Ellen Hopkins

#28. Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.

Frederick Lenz

#29. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.

David Richo

#31. Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.

Steve Stephens

#32. Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. You won't be able to forgive yourself for not doing things differently until you stop wishing things were different

Zoe York

#33. I can't give in. Giving in means living in the Labyrinth, losing, dying here. It means letting go of the string that's my only way out.

Skye Warren

#34. 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.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

#35. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring for them in a flexible and wise way. In meditation, we pay attention to our body with care and respect.

Jack Kornfield

#36. You're absolved," I tell him.
He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.
So I put it in his language. "You're free.

Hannah Moskowitz

#37. Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.

Donald Curtis

#38. becoming an ageless goddess means letting go of the fear that you aren't smart enough, educated enough, or intuitive enough to make the right decisions for yourself.

Christiane Northrup

#39. Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!

Jim Rohn

#40. When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

Arthur Wallis

#41. To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

Jack Kornfield

#42. Who among us - if it means letting go of the insanity, the mystery, the totally useless beauty of the million once-possible New Yorks - is ready even now to give up hope? BOOK

Garth Risk Hallberg

#43. Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

Chogyam Trungpa

#44. Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

Melissa De La Cruz

#45. Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.

Mark Lawrence

#46. To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come.

Erich Jantsch

#47. Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

#48. Finding what's true means letting go of the lies that control.

Emma Raveling

#49. Sometimes loving someone means letting them go. Every

Amy Patrick

#50. Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.

Joyce Rachelle

#51. Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way
in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.

Stephen Levine

#52. Forgiving someone doesn't mean pretending nothing happened. Rather, it means releasing the burden of anger and obsession so you can move on with your life.

Charles F. Glassman

#53. When tragedy comes like this, at first it is complete. You do not need to think it over, or decide what it means. For it is far ahead of you, and the very act of acknowledging it means letting it go. But then it comes round again - and it goes through you and is worse than before.

Benjamin Lytal

#54. Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions.

Gudjon Bergmann

#55. When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.

Stephen Richards

#56. Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.

Sanaya Roman

#57. He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#58. I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories. Letting go doesn't mean giving up ... it means accepting that some things weren't meant to be.

Lisa Brooks

#59. Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up, I have to cut others down.' Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.

Pope Francis

#60. A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.

Will Smith

#61. You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#62. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

Anne Lamott

#63. In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power' ... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

Chogyam Trungpa

#64. Letting go of the need to control things doesn't mean letting go of responsibility. It means embracing life.

Marc David