Quotes about Letting go

Here's a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don't even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren't even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

Don't try to steer the river.

It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...

If you believe in the mission of Jesus Christ, then you're bound to try to let go of your past, in the sense that you are entitled to his forgiveness. To keep regretting what was is to deny God's grace.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

Let go of the overwhelming desire to justify what you did and explain what they did.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.