Top 100 Quotes About Letting Things Go
#1. As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.
Sheena Iyengar
#2. Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.
Madonna Ciccone
#3. I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.
Jeffrey McDaniel
#4. Although I'm used to losing everything, I also realised I'm not good at letting things go.
Kyuugou
#5. I feel bitterness is a religion and the people who practice it are the most vehement missionaries there are. There is great strength, beauty and peace in letting things go and practicing forgiveness.
Kristen Ashley
#6. Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Eckhart Tolle
#7. You know, Miss Dixie, there's a time for letting things go, and there's a time for loadin' up your gun for bear.
Dakota Cassidy
#8. Letting things go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be
N.a.
#9. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
Stephen Mitchell
#10. Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine
John Crowder
#11. What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
Byron Katie
#12. I think I let go of the need for approval, ... It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself ... I could do everything based on how I want to do things.
Ellen DeGeneres
#13. Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.
Eckhart Tolle
#14. In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?
Gautama Buddha
#15. Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
Gretchen Rubin
#16. We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.
Sharon Salzberg
#17. Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!
Jim Rohn
#18. Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.
Winston Graham
#19. You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.
Jason Mraz
#20. Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
Ajahn Chah
#21. I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.
Ingrid Michaelson
#22. Things sometimes go our way and sometimes they don't. All we can do is apply ourselves to our profession, giving our very best effort but emotionally letting go of the outcome. Why? Because if we obsess about an outcome, we cannot possibly honour the present moment.
Christopher Dines
#23. Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!
Rihanna
#24. I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.
Louise Hay
#25. Lines have to smile. There have to be life, blood and heart in things you let go. They have to be human, warm and alive
Kay Bojesen
#26. We've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...
John Geddes
#27. I don't like songs about wanting things. I like songs about letting go, saying goodbye.
Jasmine Warga
#28. The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.
Carrie Brownstein
#29. Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward - believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.
Bryant McGill
#30. If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true.
Rachael Yamagata
#31. There she stood, frightened, yet brave, not letting go her hold on what she meant to do, even when things seemed to be most against her.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#32. 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
#33. Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone ... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things ... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.
Christopher Reeve
#34. When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#35. The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth ... and the ambitions they had ... and the things they suffered ... and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.
Thornton Wilder
#36. Music. It's not about those things. It's about a feeling. It's about expressing yourself. It's about letting go.
Antony John
#37. Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money as one safety official put it, 'When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.' No. And then men die.
Warren Farrell
#38. By acknowledging their contribution and letting them go with gratitude, you will be able to truly put the things you own, and your life, in order.
Marie Kondo
#39. Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward.
Yvonne Pierre
#40. The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.
Edmund De Waal
#41. For me, getting on a knee and praying is a very special deal for me. A very special moment. For me, it was honoring that and not letting people go out there and make a mockery of it and do a lot of different things and just kind of keeping it safe.
Tim Tebow
#42. I change my mind on things a lot, but Jax is the one thing I'm sure of. He's my best friend, and I'm not letting him go.
Ellie Wade
#43. In Tantrism, the first thing is having the experience of touch, of profound contact with things, with the universe, without mental commotion. Everything begins there: touching the universe deeply. When you touch deeply, you no longer need to let go. That occurs naturally.
Daniel Odier
#44. But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
Lois Lowry
#45. So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
Zhuangzi
#46. A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#47. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.
Hal Elrod
#48. Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.
Sheila M Burke
#49. 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
#50. This is a story about survival.
Letting go and learning to let in.
Getting along and moving on.
The truth about life.
The things left unsaid ...
Nadege Richards
#51. There are standards. I like to be prepared, I guess I should say - that type of pressure of, "All right, now you go with abandon," you know. Now when you're in it, you let go of all the things - that's what happens when you're onstage.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#52. The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.
Mandy Hale
#53. Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life - an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?
Lisa Wingate
#54. The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.
Robert Adams
#55. I have a moment where I finally realize that the aching heart, the longing, the grief, the insanity ... I finally get it after all these month. That all those things combined are what letting go feels like.
Lauren Hammond
#56. Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.
Kevin Griffin
#57. Usually, if you address things that are bothering you from the get-go and receive a positive response, our whole demeaner will change. Worries and fears surface more when you are not communicating your concerns and are letting things build up.
Amir Levine
#58. If we let go of things, our life is going to change.
And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.
Caroline Myss
#59. The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#60. Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#61. 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
#62. It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.
Pablo Picasso
#63. We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.
Charles Fillmore
#64. Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.
Joel Osteen
#65. Ut 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.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#66. Let go of the things you don't love about your childhood, and keep the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love about your adolescent and adult years, and keep the good things. Just keep the things you love about your whole life.
Rhonda Byrne
#67. Things change, time changes. People change, life changes. Time changes things, life changes people.
Aline Alzime
#68. For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#70. Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.
Gabriel Marcel
#71. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
Stephen Richards
#72. If you stay in the word of God then you'll get a fresh leading of new things to share. I share my testimony of what God has done, but there's certain things that when I slip into the Word and let God speak to me through His Word and it's a fresh thing for me to share.
Jeremy Camp
#73. You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.
C. JoyBell C.
#74. Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
Yukio Mishima
#75. The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
Sharon Salzberg
#76. I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!
Paddy Chayefsky
#77. There are three things in life ... not worrying what they are, not caring what others may think they are, and enjoying the wonder of what they might be.
Tom Althouse
#78. Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again.
Tsem Tulku
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.
Hugh Prather
#83. Some things take root
in the brain and just don't
let go.
Tim Seibles
#84. When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.
Molly Quinn
#85. You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still move on without them.
Mandy Hale
#86. The things we don't stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.
Mandy Hale
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#90. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
Stephen Richards
#91. Do not heed the jar of man's warring opinions. Let God be true and every man a liar. The Bible is the Bible still. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.
Horatius Bonar
#92. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.
Jenny Han
#93. Letting go of the need to control things doesn't mean letting go of responsibility. It means embracing life.
Marc David
#94. Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.
Joaquin Phoenix
#95. There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity.
Eddie Izzard
#96. 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
#97. Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.
Nazr Mohammed
#98. 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
#99. Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you ... ?
Mark Lepper
#100. There were things worth keeping and things worth letting go of, and figuring out which was which wasn't that easy." -Jane
Tara Altebrando
