Top 100 Sayings About Letting It Go
#1. There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.
Jacqueline Koyanagi
#2. It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.
Estella Warren
#3. Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
J.B. Priestley
#4. It was a mistake to not tell you how I felt. It's haunted me since the day I came home and found you gone. You'll never know how sorry I am for letting you slip through my fingers. But it won't happen again because I'm never letting you go. Ever
Georgia Cates
#5. Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares.
A.B. Simpson
#6. Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
Gautama Buddha
#7. And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, gently, like they were letting them go. It wasnt the same as giving them up. It wasnt the same as losing them.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#8. I'm sorry about ... .ever letting you go. I'm sorry for all the time we wasted. I'm sorry for being here with you right now when we can't do a damned thing about it.
T. Torrest
#9. What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
Byron Katie
#10. If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.
Neil Gaiman
#11. 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
#12. Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
Ron Taffel
#13. There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.
Immodesty Blaize
#14. Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can't let go of the past.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#15. If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
Sarah Dessen
#16. I don't think love is about letting go; it's about treasuring it whilst you have it in your life.
Victoria Walters
#17. We generally look around for what is not there fretting over it and thus letting go of what is there.
Amit Abraham
#18. It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust,
Clarence Clemons
#19. Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
Guy Finley
#20. The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.
Mike Brown
#21. Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.
Rajneesh
#22. 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
#23. 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
#25. I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
Natascha McElhone
#26. It's nice to be able to let go of the reins sometimes and know that somebody you really trust is gonna pick them up as soon as you do.
Georgia Nott
#27. Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isn't just the loss of one life, it's the loss of two lives - one who found another world, perhaps...and one who is left behind.
Faraaz Kazi
#28. Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
Bobby Cox
#30. Letting go isn't about forgetting; it's about learning and moving on. It's making a choice to be strengthened by your past ... not strangled by it.
Steve Maraboli
#31. Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
#32. It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.
Robin Hobb
#33. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Stephen Richards
#34. Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight.
Shannon L. Alder
#35. It's as if every soft curve of her fantastic figure was made solely for my pleasure and punishment; her pussy made strictly for my cock to fuck. Every inch of her was made for me and only me and I'm not letting this one go. She's mine.
Ella Dominguez
#36. Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#37. The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.
Allen Ginsberg
#38. It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.
Sheri L. Dew
#39. 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
#40. It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it.
[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.]
Don Henley
#41. It's funny. We have all these ceremonies and traditions for putting rings on, but there's nothing for taking them off. But really, that's just as a big step. Letting go.
Thea Dawson
#42. There's really no point in letting failure get the best of you. Better to just let it go and move on.
Annie Wersching
#43. 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
#44. The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your circle are able to do what they say they're going to do and what they're really good at. It has made me a better band member, too.
Nikki Sixx
#45. Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness ... so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better.
Rita Zahara
#47. 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
#48. His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.
Jay Asher
#49. A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'
Tullian Tchividjian
#50. So now you can let go, my darling ... Let go ... Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes ... Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.
Aldous Huxley
#51. You have to let go of those feelings, Ra. Anger, fear, regret. It's the only way you can forgive yourself and love again.
Winna Efendi
#53. To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside.
L.J. Vanier
#54. Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.
Mark Epstein
#55. There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
Francis Darwin
#56. I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl's leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.
Steve Martin
#57. 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
#58. What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.
Sonny Vaccaro
#59. 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
#60. When you hate something, you chain yourself to it.
Steve Maraboli
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.
Saul Williams
#64. TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and doesn't let go, even after you've closed the book.
Tasha Alexander
#65. 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
#66. People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.
Byron Katie
#67. The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.
Frederick Lenz
#68. 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
#69. God's warriors don't avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.
Ralph Blum
#71. I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.
Loretta Ellsworth
#72. I feel you in my bones. You're knocking at my windows. You're slow to letting me go. And I know this feeling, This feeling in my bones.
Tegan Quin
#73. It was at that point ... that I remembered the importance of surrender, of letting go and allowing nature to weave its magic.
Bronnie Ware
#74. But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.
Soheir Khashoggi
#76. He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.
Alice Hoffman
#77. When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
Epictetus
#78. Letting go is not about giving up, being lazy, or sacrificing yourself... Letting go doesn't have to mean losing; it can be about coming into a new, open, clean space from which you can create.
Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble
#79. This place is in my heart, but it can't be my home, not now, maybe not ever ... - Samuel Yates
Amy Harmon
#80. A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.
Anthony De Mello
#81. 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
#82. By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao-Tzu
#83. By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home.
Leon Brown
#84. Psychotherapy seeks for an improvement in neurotic balance. Letting go, however, eliminates it all together.
David R. Hawkins
#85. 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
#86. If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?
Kat Von D.
#87. I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day.
Wendy Williams
#88. I was afraid that letting their love in my heart would replace some of the pain I was feeling. I didn't want to let go of my pain - I wanted to own every single ounce of it - but I've worn my pain like a badge of honor for far too long. It's time for me to let the love in and the pain out.
A.D. McCammon
#89. Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day's work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.
Edith Stein
#91. I have no distributor ... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.
Bill Dixon
#92. 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
#93. Until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything.
Neale Donald Walsch
#94. I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.
Joseph Conrad
#95. 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
#96. Healing is a process. Sometimes it's quick, and other times it's gruelingly long. You're the only person who knows when it's time to move on and let go.
Jonathan Sadowski
#97. Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.
Deepak Chopra
#98. Ivy gave the woman's hand a firm squeeze before letting it go. "What do you need?" she asked. "We're holding up." That, too, sounded like a rote reply, recited over and over again in hopes that it might somehow become the truth.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#99. Every living thing dies, Art. That's why we cherish it while we have it. That's why we respect the decisions our loved ones make for themselves. That's why we love, and why we care, and why we hurt. Because everything dies.
Reilyn J. Hardy
#100. Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
Jack Kornfield
