Quotes About Letting Go

#1. I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

Stephen Colbert

#2. the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened

Rupi Kaur

#3. It was as if someone had left
the bird there
as a kind of telegram
of feathers, oily feathers
that looked like they'd struggled,
shuttered a little before letting go
into flight
forever.

Kristen Henderson

#4. The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.

Mark Boyle

#5. Love is an anchor -- it stops you from drifting away. Love is sticking up for your friends and family, or even your pets. Love is being brave and saying what you feel. Love is making music or playing tennis; it's doing what you want to do. Love is holding on and not letting go.

Robert Corbet

#6. Holding on and getting attached is sadness. Letting go with love opens the heart to fill it with happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#7. 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

#8. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Miranda July

#9. When something is "off" in your life, you know it. And it takes an incredible amount of energy to continue the denial - energy that could be used toward letting go of the old and inviting in the new. That

Nancy Levin

#10. It's hard letting go of the past, when there are no firm handholds in the future.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#11. You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

Michael Shannon

#12. I know I'm being a pain in the ass, Sascha darling, but humor me. I'm working on letting go -I promise our kid will be a wild savage exactly like Roman and Julian.

Nalini Singh

#13. The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

John Seely Brown

#14. The two of them holding each other, the tears flowing freely now, as if by never letting go they would never have to say goodbye.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#15. Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

David Levithan

#16. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

Yann Martel

#17. We all have an eraser incorporated within us, a delete key, but we forget how to use it. Ho'oponopono helps us to remember the power that we have to choose between erasing (letting go) or reacting, being happy or suffering. It is only a matter of choice in every moment of our lives.

Mabel Katz

#18. The Crying Child found a Mountain where others who had suffered had gone to learn to live through letting go. They learned that one must not struggle to change the unchangeable. That the only peace to be found is the peace of acceptance.

Hannah Hart

#19. Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.

Philippa Perry

#20. I have learned that raising a child is essentially one long, slow agony of letting go.

Hope Jahren

#21. 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

#22. The quickest way to letting go of all your fears ... is to stop storing them in your head.

Timothy Pina

#23. Sometimes letting go was the best option. Not politically correct, but often necessary.

Lorelei James

#24. I'm bad at letting go of things.

Heidi Klum

#25. By letting go it all gets done.

Lao-Tzu

#26. Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.

Adam Young

#27. It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Roger Von Oech

#28. The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#29. You deserve to live your best life now, so set yourself free by forgiving and letting go of that hurt you've been holding on to.

Jamie Larbi

#30. Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

Octavio Paz

#31. So it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

Charles Bukowski

#32. Tightness takes more energy than the letting go.

Beth Johnson

#33. I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely.

Michael Easton

#34. 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

#35. By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.

Sallie Tisdale

#36. Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that's fearless too.

Taylor Swift

#37. Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

Bryant H. McGill

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

Michael Perry

#39. A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires, we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.

Michael Meade

#40. God is love and doesn't ask for anything back in return. So it's that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state.

Wayne Dyer

#41. It is as if producing a creative work tears a piece from your soul. When it is ripped completely free of you, the wound must bleed for a while. How similar it is to letting go of a dream, your hope, or your heart's desire. You must open up and let it drain.

Lynn Cullen

#42. The key to change is letting go of fear.

Pittacus Lore

#43. Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#44. I'm going to get out of here,' she said.
'That's the spirit.' Tamsin sighed, letting go of her last tears.
'Next time they take me to the tanks,' Ana continued, 'I'll make sure they drown me.'
'OK, it's official. You're mad.

Claire Merle

#45. There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

Elizabeth Berg

#46. I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing that sometimes community can happen only in the gaps where mystery resides.

Joyce Hollyday

#47. If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

Deb Caletti

#48. 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

#49. Letting go is hard, but always worth your efforts.

Anamika Mishra

#50. The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#51. 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

#52. Through my writing, I learned my Life Lessons from all the experiences in my past, good and bad. Letting go of the drama we create for ourselves is the biggest gift we can ever receive.

KoKo Nervelli

#53. Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

Melody Beattie

#54. Life had its seasons, and the season of letting go would always come, but there was something very beautiful in that, in the letting go. Leaves were always graceful as they floated away from the tree.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#55. It's about taking everything you thought was true and throwing it out the window. It's about embracing life's unpredictability, letting go of boundaries, and starting over

Sara Shepard

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

Stephen Levine

#57. Notice if you are holding your breath after inhaling, and if so, what are you afraid of letting go. Or are you holding it after exhaling, and what are you afraid of letting in.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#58. To feel the joy of life, let yourself go.
By letting go we can feel and claim true ownership.

Debasish Mridha

#59. 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.

Rodger Kamenetz

#60. The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.

Molly Fumia

#61. Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.

Stephen King

#62. 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

#63. I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that's not necessarily the truth.

Kevin Gates

#64. He needed to "kill his darlings" - Stephen King's favorite term for letting go of stuff that just doesn't work.

June Casagrande

#65. What can I give you, Aislinn? Shall I weave flowers into your hair?"
He opened his hand, letting go of her hair. An iris blossom sat in the palm of his hand. "Shall I bring you necklaces of gold? Delicacies mortals can only dream of? I'll do all those things anyway. Don't waste your wish.

Melissa Marr

#66. There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

Mike White

#67. Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim
letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

C.R. Strahan

#68. Happiness can be attained by letting go, including letting go of your ideas about happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#69. See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#70. I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.

Masha Tupitsyn

#71. The denouement is perhaps the most moving scene of her show Letting Go of God.

Richard Dawkins

#72. World peace starts at home and begins with letting go of grudges.

Charles F. Glassman

#73. The worst type of letting go isn't thekicking or the screaming ,because at least then there's enough emotion left to fight.No,the worst type is the silent acceptance.The quietness of the release.That's when the person realizes they no longer give a damn.

Katie McGarry

#74. Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

Gail Sheehy

#75. 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

#76. You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

Joel Osteen

#77. The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

Hugh Prather

#78. What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.

George F. R. Ellis

#79. Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed

Oprah Winfrey

#80. Peace is Letting Go
Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#81. Giving up doesn't make you a quiter, a loser or a failure.
It makes you wise enough to stop holding on to what refuses to be held.
Hence i say, letting go hurts,
but holding on to what is no longer there
hurts even more.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#82. You know friends don't hold hands," I whispered, knowing that there was no way that I was letting go first.
"Huh," he grunted. "Me and Kier hold hands all the time

R.J. Prescott

#83. If the borderline rage that had fueled me for so long was torn down and taken away, would there be anything left? Or would it take the life, the spirit, right out of me? I was daunted by the prospect of letting go without a clear idea of what would emerge in the old framework's place.

Rachel Reiland

#84. How can one know the eternal origin?
By letting go of ideas
and allowing it to reveal itself

Lao-Tzu

#85. Letting go of yourself is the simplest way to get closer to others. The

Michael A. Singer

#86. Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Ajahn Chah

#87. It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

Mary E. DeMuth

#88. One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.

Jack Kornfield

#89. Letting go of the belief that we're powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our ability not only to heal but also to genuinely love and receive the love of others.

Sharon Salzberg

#90. Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.

Ayya Khema

#91. The lesson of the falling leaves
the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves

Lucille Clifton

#92. The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can't bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Marc David

#94. Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go.

Gina Greenlee

#95. Be careful," he says.
"Why?" I'm not thinking about being careful. I'm thinking about one last push, of letting go, of flying, and of falling.
"You aren't allowed to die without me," he whispers.

Jasmine Warga

#96. Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#97. 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

#98. You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

Charles Bukowski

#99. If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.

Brene Brown

#100. Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

Spencer Johnson