Quotes About Letting Something Go

#1. Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

Neale Donald Walsch

#2. Letting go is easier than holding onto something that isn't real

Steven Aitchison

#3. A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

Shakti Gawain

#4. My mother passed away, my marriage ended, and I moved. Those are some pretty big things to let go of. But I find that if you hold on to something too tightly, you strangle it and yourself. If you don't let go, and let things go through you, it's toxic - physically.

Ingrid Michaelson

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

Alexis Taylor

#6. In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#7. You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.

Eoin Macken

#8. I think passion is something that's more powerful than even love. It's something that you're not willing to let go of, and you'll work really hard to make sure that stays a part of your life.

Bethany Hamilton

#9. Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

Lester Levenson

#10. 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

#11. Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#12. Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning.

Stephen Richards

#13. The labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.

Susan Piver

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

Pema Chodron

#15. 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

#16. I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.

Pete Docter

#17. To create a wonderful day sometimes takes just a slight change in the way you look at it. Be willing to let go of an old, negative way that you look at something, and look at it in a new, positive way.

Louise Hay

#18. God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. In order to grow, you must learn to let go and strive toward something greater.

Darren Johnson

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

Marianne Williamson

#23. I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out ... It's not something easily described or understood.

Marilyn Manson

#24. THEY SAY THE best way to move on is to let go. As if letting go is the easy part. As if trying to dim or erase three years of memories, good and bad, is something you can do in one day.

Claire Contreras

#25. In the moment where my mind, body and soul are assaulted I know that I'll never be the same ever again. Braxxon has seized me and something tells me he isn't letting me go. Winter

Crystal Spears

#26. The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.

Frederick Lenz

#27. he believes it is, overall, a wiser approach to life's problems. After all, how can you pick up something new - a new career, a new relationship, a new outlook on life - without first letting go of the old? It's like trying to pick up a bag of groceries when your hands are already full.

Eric Weiner

#28. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

C. JoyBell C.

#29. I think there's no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It's like inventing something, but it's invisible, you know? It's weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that's the joy. It's like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they're your kids.

Jason Mraz

#30. Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

Richard J. Foster

#31. In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down.

Todd Stocker

#32. Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

Michael Adam Hamilton

#33. We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#34. The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.

Taylor Hanson

#35. I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.

Andy Samberg

#36. Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

Marianne Williamson

#37. Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.

Stephen Richards

#38. To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

John C. Maxwell

#39. Blaine, the scariest part about love isn't love itself. It's letting go and plunging into the unknown. It's trusting someone with the very most sacred part of your heart. It's allowing yourself to feel something foreign and uncharted, despite how much it terrifies the hell out of you

S.L. Jennings

#40. If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

Terry Brooks

#41. Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

Laozi

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

Frederick Lenz

#43. I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

Richard Bach

#44. If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

Jack White

#45. You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.

Damian Barr

#46. Was it hard?" I ask.
Letting go?"
Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.

Lisa Schroeder

#47. There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Kate DiCamillo

#48. You don't need to go over every detail of your past, but if something comes up, face it and process those feelings, get to the core belief, so you can shift it.

Sheri Kaye Hoff

#49. She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us

Chris Manby

#50. I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Jeffrey McDaniel

#51. The challenge for any artist - and we are all creating something on the canvas of our lives - is to do our work well while letting go of the result.

Jeff Goins

#52. Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

Noah Levine

#53. Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

#54. 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

#55. But I will say also on yer first day that the attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.

Patrick Ness

#56. 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

#57. If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.

C. JoyBell C.

#58. Forgiveness is letting go and letting go is painful. It's not something we do for others; it's something we do for ourselves.

Jewel E. Ann

#59. Letting go does not mean pushing away or negating thoughts or feelings that come to us - but instead being with the feeling. We start to feel that we are no longer victims of the stuff that happens to us. There is something we can do about it ... if we just take a look at it.

Krishna Das

#60. I think love is something you figure out later on in life, and you have to make a lot of mistakes to figure out what love is, which is why we all have shitty, tumultuous relationships when we're younger, and it's harder to let go,

Alexandra Daddario

#61. The secret to life is to have no fear. When you can let go of what others think about you, how something is going to turn out, or how your past will affect your future, then you are finally living life free.

Shannon L. Alder

#62. The hardest part of learning something new is not embracing new ideas, but letting go of old ones.

Todd Rose

#63. We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Frederick Buechner

#64. Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.

Mariah Carey

#65. 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

#66. The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something I make, the better.

Jeff Tweedy

#67. There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

Michael Pollan

#68. When you hate something, you chain yourself to it.

Steve Maraboli

#69. When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Kate McGahan

#70. I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements ... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to be wild and crazy, and just let go and attack people.

Mena Suvari

#71. Don't try fixing something that is already broken in the first place.

John Robert Go

#72. Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need.

Sheryl Crow

#73. The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

Laozi

#74. So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [ ... ] Learning to live is learning to let go.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#75. If something's not working out, but you keep hammering at it in the exact same way, go after something else for a while. That's not giving up, that's just letting the universe have its way.

Sophia Amoruso

#76. Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Iyanla Vanzant

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 'Rocky' is an incredibly human story, and 'Creed' is very inspired by the Rocky lore, but there's something kind of profound in letting it all go. This is the first time I'm co-writing, and I'm learning as I go. This process is so different from 'Fruitvale'; hopefully it gets made.

Ryan Coogler

#80. By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go ... .Miss Leefolt, she'd narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong, unhitch that crying baby off my foot. I reckon that's the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns

Kathryn Stockett

#81. I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

Joe Swanberg

#82. Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.

Britney Spears

#83. If you really love something, you have to know how to let go.

Kim Tae-yeon

#84. Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can't "should've" done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!

Steve Maraboli

#85. Pause and remember - Life is a process of surrendering. Make the decision to let go of what no longer serves you or makes you feel good. Know that you are worth more and something better will arrive once you create the space.

Jennifer Young

#86. If you look back on a period of psychological or spiritual growth, you'll generally find that it's when you've let go of something that you have made progress. It's the letting go that allows you to expand and grow.

Ian Watson

#87. When we want to let go of a situation no matter what it is we must be able to "bless" it. When you bless something you sanction it giving it your approval and endorsement freeing it to go forward with your cooperation and support.

Sue Augustine

#88. Funny how when we start to tell a secret, we can't stop. Something falls open in us, and the sheer momentum of letting go pushes us on.

Victoria Schwab

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

Zig Ziglar

#90. Letting go is a hard, hard thing. Some days, it seems impossible. Stubbornness sets in, heels dig firmly into the dirt below us, and fingers refuse to uncurl from something so precious to one's heart even if by a centimeter. Other days, though, it's a fervent wish.

Heather Lyons

#91. Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I'm letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.

Shakira

#92. You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

Guy Finley

#93. Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

Meister Eckhart

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

Peter Block

#95. If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what's in your hand.

Sonia Choquette