Quotes About Letting Go

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• Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.
• If you trust yourself enough to know you can feel bad and recover, you will do just that.
• Be willing that any feeling can visit your house.
• A bitter spirit will keep you from being a better person.
• 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.
• You deal with your sadness badly when you try to escape it. You deal with it well when you let yourself cry. You deal with it wisely when you use it as inspiration.
• A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.
• All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?
• Do not label your feelings good or bad, right or wrong. Feel what you feel and allow it to pass.
• Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
• To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.
• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
• In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
• Letting go doesn’t mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.
• Throw everything away, forget about it all! You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying too hard… relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow.
• Master your emotions, or they will serve other masters.
• Hot emotions overpower reason and derail long term strategy. If you are highly reactive you will be continually lured into unwinnable games. Learn to pause just long enough for your senses to catch up with your circumstances. Give your best self time to win the inner argument.
• Your fear of looking stupid is making you look stupid. What other people think of you is none of your business.
• Do not envy others for the gifts they receive, or you will have no peace of mind by day or by night. Those who have destroyed the roots of jealousy have peace of mind always.
• Anger is overrated since you think it will solve your problem. Forgiveness is underrated since you think it will make you weak.
• When we look outward, we are easily swayed by the winds of the world. When we face inward, we can find our center and rest in stillness.
• Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is freedom.
• Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
• Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.
• Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.
• Pain will leave you when you let go.
• I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
• 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.
• There was nothing left to say.
• Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
• We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.
• Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.
• If you want inspiring friends, learn to be an inspiring friend yourself. If you want great relationships, learn to do what great relationships require first.
• 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.
• Conditions are always changing, and real peace lies in the ability to adapt to this changes.
• If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.
• The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
• Perhaps maturity is letting go of the addiction to being understood, being accepted and getting what we want.
• Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.
• If you understood your being, you remain in tune with yourself. Nobody can disturb your inner harmony. If somebody loves, good; if somebody hates, good. Both remain somewhere outside you. This is what we call mastery. This is what we call crystallisation – become free of impressions, influences.
• Peace is in the emptiness. Emptiness is in the fast of the mind.
• 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.
• Weakness is when external events control your internal reality. Strength is when your internal reality controls external events. Peace is when your internal reality is neither defined by external events nor compelled to control them.
• Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
• Any excessive pursuit of a goal brings you face to face with the paradoxes of grasping. The harder you chase ‘happiness’, the less likely you are to find it.
• Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.
• He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
• Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of being.
• It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better.
• Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.
• Most things are best understood by letting go and observing from a distance.
• The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.
• Feeling happy, confident and peaceful are all inside jobs. That’s why we don’t know about truly happy people: they don’t need to show it.
• Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.
• Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
• Often, the best response is no response. Learn to ignore; you will be surprised how many of your problems suddenly disappear.
• There are two ways to live a life either forget everything or, remember nothing.
• Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there.
• Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.
• You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.
• In letting go, letting be, there is peace, silence and clarity that arise from complete abandonment. Let life be.
• Let there be a time in the day when you shut down the mind, do nothing and just relax. As muscles grow when rested after weight lifting, so will your mind become invigorated if you give it rest after intense mental activity. Don’t leave it switched on 24/7.
• Live in observer mode. Observe, be meditative. Don’t waste energy in small talk and unnecessary busyness. Lay back, relax, observe, appreciate. Just be. Don’t be in a hurry to take sides. Don’t impose anything. Be a detached, amused observer of your life. Let yourself flow.
• Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.
• Those who say life is hardx9d spend their days fighting against its current.
• You are free to abandon yourself to actual life.
• If you chase happiness, it means you feel unhappy. If you chase money, it means you feel poor. If you chase life, it means you’re not present.
• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
• When you realize that you live in this moment now, and no other, you must relax and taste to the full, whether it be pleasure or pain.
• It could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
• No desires, no goal, no seeking, no thoughts, neither obtaining, nor rejecting, nor grasping, nor letting go, being free.
• Stop being a control freak and just let thing’s play out.
• You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.
• To me, meditation is a living relationship with the total existence that surrounds you. If you can be in love with any situation, then you are in meditation.
• Other people are excited, as though they were a parade. I alone don’t care, I alone am expressionless like an infant before it can smile.
• No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.
• Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.
• Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.
• But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.
• The mind is the ruler of the soul. It should remain unstirred by agitations of the flesh – gentle and violent ones alike. Not mingling with them, but fencing itself off and keeping those feelings in their place. When they make their way into your thoughts, through the sympathetic link between mind and body, don’t try to resist the sensation. The sensation is natural. But don’t let the mind start in with judgments, calling it goodx9d or badx9d.
• When hungry, eat your rice; when tired close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
• To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.
• Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self-worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.
• Everything changes. There is nothing to stick to. That is the Buddha’s most important teaching.
• In the end the treasure of life is missed by those who hold on, and gained by those who let go.
• Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
• The world is ruled by letting things take their course.
• But you yourself will not wish to be a general or senator or consul, but a free man: and there is only one way to this, to despise the things which are not in our power.
• Not coveting a single thing is the greatest gift you can give to the universe.
• Let life live you for a while instead of trying to make yourself live life.
• Like a sandcastle, all is temporary. Build it, tend it, enjoy it, and when the time comes let it go.
• Care too little and you’ll eventually feel useless. Care too much and you’ll live in misery. Find out what’s worth suffering for.
• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
• Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
• Everything you have and will ever have, you will one day lose. Your health, your family, your life. No matter how much you kick and scream and fight. Prepare yourself for that moment, accept it, and be at peace.
• For a moment, let go of all trying to understand. Let go of all understanding. Here it is.
• One need not go anywhere to be blissful. One can sit silently, be alone, and be blissful.
• Trust is the fragrance of a silent, peaceful being. Trust is the fragrance of nothingness.
• Unconsciousness, unawareness, is the cause of attachment.
• Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning.
• You’re only making a mess by trying to put things straight. You’re trying to straighten out a wiggly world and no wonder you’re in trouble.
• Part 3. A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.
• Part 2. That one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backwards, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it….but love it.
• Part 1. Amor fati is a mindset that you take on for making the best out of anything that happens: Treating each and every moment – no matter how challenging – as something to be embraced, not avoided. To not only be okay with it, but love it and be better for it. So that like oxygen to a fire, obstacles and adversity become fuel for your potential.
• Freedom is just letting go of all the things I want everyone to notice about me.
• If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
• The weak need others to know their worth. The strong already know their worth and show it. The wise just do their best and don’t care about the rest.
• If you reject unfounded blame, you must also reject unjustified praise.
• If someone’s insults’ bother you; it is evidence that you respect him.
• Our difficulty is to let go, either the past or the future, because we are frightened.
• And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death – but it’s more peaceful.
• The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.
• The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
• So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like an idiot over the short term.
• By letting go of the banana, the monkey becomes a monk.
• Letting go is never easy. There is not short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It’s not easy and it’s likely to hurt, but it is for the best.
• Enlightenment is not a desire, is not a goal, is not an ambition. It is a dropping of all goals, a dropping of all desires, a dropping of all ambitions. It is just being natural. That’s what is meant by flowing.
• Trust simply means that whatever happens we are with it, joyously, not reluctantly, not unwillingly – then you miss the whole point – but dancingly, with a song, with laughter, with love. Whatever happens is for the good.
• If it can be improved, improve it. If it must be accepted, accept it. Embracing the inevitable frees you up to tackle what is within your control.
• Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
• Don’t worry about the elements around you and what’s going on… You gotta get out there and get it.
• Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
• The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.
• If you can be patient, just a little patient and allow whatever is happening, soon you will be aware of a new quality in your being.
• Letting go doesn’t mean you give up. It means you keep going but you’re not attached to the outcome.
• We must learn to let things flow just like breath, and life will do the rest.
• If there is no contradiction whatsoever you have abundance of energy.
• Slow down, get aligned, listen to the guidance and receive miracles.
• Never ruin a good day by thinking about a bad yesterday.
• Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.
• If you let go a little you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace.
• The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
• Some things can only be grasped by letting go.
• Feelings are just visitors. Let them come and go.
• If you let go of your story, you get to live your life.
• Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go.
• Learning to accept is learning to love.
• Peace is what you are capable of being.
• You have got to let go and let it happen.
• The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
• Letting go is not giving up.
• Let it all go, see what stays.
• Learning to live is learning to let go.
• Learning to let go is learning to accept.
• Just be, and enjoy being.
• Whatever it is, let it go.
• Dare to live by letting go.
• The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
• There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
• Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
• It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
• Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.
• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
• What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.
• From my own limited experience I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion.
• Enjoy what you can and ignore the rest. Let’s not waste any energy fighting things that are outside our control.
• Your mind will find dissatisfaction regardless of your circumstances. Dissatisfaction is independent of circumstances; switching circumstances won’t solve your dissatisfaction. Instead, learn to release your attachments and accept the universe whatever it brings you.
• Let go of becoming, but never let go of taking action. Stop expecting, and start living.
• 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.
• The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.
• When we give too many f*cks, when we choose to give a f*ck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times – that’s when life f*cks us.
• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
• Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic – this is the spiritual path.
• Just as a mighty boulder stirs not with the wind, so the wise are never moved either by praise or blame.
• The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.
• To resist change, to try to cling to life, is like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
• Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.
• Let go and just do your own work.
• Take a step back and realize most things are distractions.
• Choose the non-emotional response to any given situation and see how much easier your life becomes.
• One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall passx9d.
• 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.
• Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
• There are two ways to be. One is at war with reality and the other is at peace.
• No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions; when your affairs are under control you are free.
• Life moves on and so should we.
• Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
• Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.
• Give up your attachment to having things your way.