Letting Quotes

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.

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.

I let go of all fear and doubt, and life becomes simple and easy for me

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

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.

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

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

Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embracing NOW.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

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

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

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.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.

Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.

Periods of change are full of paradoxes. They're difficult but exciting, frightening but freeing. Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating.

Each exhale allows us to let go of the moment that has just passed.

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

Some things take root in the brain and just don’t let go.

Love means knowing when to let go.

You have to let go of the past to have a better future, and you do that through love and family.

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

Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.

Sometimes the only way to keep love, is to let it go.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

I don’t want to say I’ll be back at the top of my game because everybody’s gonna think I’m crazy and it’s the old player not letting go sort of thing, but that’s what it’s gonna be.

I don't know why she picked me, but she did and I'm not letting go.

If you were mine, I would never let you go.

I’m trying to make myself let you go before Ms. Mary comes to get you, but you go and shiver at my touch and weaken my resolve to stop holding you.

If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

Unbinding the Heart really means to bring awareness to those areas we have restricted in our hearts and start to let go, open up, and practice staying open no matter what happens or doesn't happen.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.