Quotes About Letting Go Of What You Can't Control

#1. The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you're in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don't control.

Steve Maraboli

#2. I'm letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn't work well.

Nikki Gil

#3. Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

Angeles Arrien

#5. All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Julia Cameron

#6. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

Christina Baker Kline

#7. Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it's best to avoid such things altogether.

A.J. Darkholme

#8. When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

Geri Larkin

#9. Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#10. We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

Lester Levenson

#11. I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

Kristen Stewart

#12. Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.

Laozi

#13. Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Deborah Reber

#14. All you gotta do is chill out ... Let go of control and chill out ... Let it be, Trust.

Esther Hicks

#15. Acceptance and commitment therapy, a variant on cognitive therapy, attempts to teach people to accept rather than change their emotions and make decisions within the context of what they value, as opposed to letting negative feelings control their behavior.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#16. No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Byron Katie

#17. I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.

Raul Castillo

#18. The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.

Lisa Kleypas

#19. letting go of control may be the single most important part of creating a successful classroom" (Barnes,

Mark Barnes

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

Marc David

#21. When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

Taylor Swift

#22. Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall.

Henry Kimsey-House

#23. Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

John Hagee

#24. When you have succeeded in letting go of a trivial preoccupation or two, your awareness will begin to expand into the deeper sources of stress in your life, the bigger uncontrollable things that you have been at pains to control.

Linda Bender

#25. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much - too tiring - and you consider letting go.

Jay Asher

#26. Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

James Arthur Ray

#27. When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.

Darren Johnson

#28. And I know
The scariest part is letting go
Cause love is a ghost you can't control

Christina Perri

#29. Let go of the need to control. Trust in the wisdom of a divine plan.

Cheryl Richardson

#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. Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.

Elliot Kay

#32. This isn't about letting you stay in control. This is about making you lose your mind. I say when you're ready, and I plan to take my time getting you there.

R.K. Lilley

#33. A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

Carlos Castaneda

#34. Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.

Max Weiss

#35. There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

SARK

#36. You need to hire and develop great people. You need to set the vision and trust them to do the right thing. You need to let go of control. That's wonderful for all involved because you're empowering and trusting your people to do what's right for the brand.

Frances Allen

#37. I'm in my 30's, and I'm still struggling with defining myself. I'm working every day to take control of things that are out of my control, and not letting them bring me down or frustrate me, to the point of paralysis.

Lauren Iungerich

#38. The sooner you learn to be kind to yourself, the sooner you will heal and move on with the life you want. It's time to stop letting other people run your life and control how you feel.

Paige Dearth

#39. There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.

Steve Maraboli

#40. Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

Vincent Cassel

#41. The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown.

Steven Cuoco

#42. Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.

Kelly Martin

#43. If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.

Richie Norton

#44. I turn toward the window beside me because unlike Victor, I have absolutely no control over the smile on my face, and I can't risk letting him see it. ~~~~

J.A. Redmerski

#45. This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.

R.A. Nelson

#46. Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.

Kano Jigoro

#47. Getting fired from work does not make you a failure. Letting it take control of your life is what does

Sunday Adelaja

#48. Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

Marsha M. Linehan

#49. I got my tubes tied last fall, at age 45 ... After 33 years or so, I struggled to gain control of my reproductive potential and its power over my destiny. Finally, instead of letting nature continue to screw around with me, at least in this one area I engineered a pre-emptive strike.

Marion Winik

#50. 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

#51. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

Laozi

#52. You must learn that nobody can control everything in the flow of life," said Dart. "Control is something we all strive for - but you will find, as you become more experienced with magic, that you gain more control over yourself by releasing your need to control life.

A. Grace Martin

#53. [Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#54. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

Jimmy Carter

#55. As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.

Nicole Kidman

#56. Except that night didn't change my life. I changed it. I have to stop acting like I have no control over these things. Like I'm letting them just happen to me. These are my choices. For better or worse.

Hannah Harrington

#57. Q. Why is it so difficult to control attention? A. Lack of habit. We are too accustomed to letting things happen. When we want to control attention or something else, we find it difficult, just as physical work is difficult if we are not accustomed to it.

P.D. Ouspensky

#58. In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

Stephen Richards

#59. In whose delusional mind is democracy made better by letting wealthier people control more of it?

Jon Stewart

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

Emma Raveling

#61. The trick, I realized, was in letting go enough to simply accept the challenging times and experience life in all its messy glory instead of trying to predict or control our reality.

Laura Bradbury

#62. To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to let go of how others define us; what damaging messages remain from childhood; how others define our relationship with the creator; and what expectations they may have for us.

David W. Earle

#63. Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions/

Will Smith

#64. I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.

Mary J. Blige

#65. Sometimes you have to stop trying to control everything and let life happen the way it's supposed to, Tess. Even if it's not exactly the way you wanted.
But what if it's not even a little like you wanted?
Then you deal with it and keep going.

Lord, Cynthia

#66. He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him. Then

Spencer Johnson

#67. If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

Charlene Li

#68. Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.

Frederick Lenz

#69. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

Stephen Richards

#70. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Shannon L. Alder

#71. If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Joel Osteen

#72. It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Andy Andrews

#73. Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

Melody Beattie

#74. Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

Madeleine L'Engle

#75. With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

Gloria Gaither

#76. You need to have one element about your outfit that is imperfect, that says you live in it and you're not letting it control you. I think men and women both need a softness about them with formal wear.

Paul Feig

#77. Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

Brian Kilmeade

#78. However, letting yourself be driven by fear, denying the realities around you, or trying to control the unknown only undermines your confidence.

Bob Rosen

#79. Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you're not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it.

Queen Latifah

#80. Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.

Oswald Spengler

#81. You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

Steve Maraboli

#82. I control it by being painfully honest about just how crazy I am. I control it by allowing myself to hide in bathrooms and under tables during important events. And sometimes I control it by letting it control me, because I have no other choice.

Jenny Lawson

#83. Don't sin by letting anger control you. Think about it overnight and remain silent.

Anonymous

#84. Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

John Eliot

#85. The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.

Laozi

#86. 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

#87. Our need to control eventually works against us b/c we start to repress what we truly feel, need and want. God is in control so trust in that more than yourself!

Michael Barbarulo

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

Ben Folds

#89. The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.

Max Lucado

#90. We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

Peter Block

#91. I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#92. Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

William S. Burroughs

#93. Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace.

Brian Weiss

#94. Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.

Tyson Gay

#96. You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

Dan Millman

#97. Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life's current.

Tom Shadyac

#98. I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.

David Gordon Green

#99. As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

Aretha Franklin

#100. Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.

Gyalwa Dokhampa