Quotes about Letting go

Regret is a useless emotion.

Hating those boys didn't do anything to the boys, just to me. So I pushed them and all my hate from my heart. Once I did that, God came back in.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do

Stop trying, & start trusting.

It's in that place that we're reminded that true life comes when we're willing to admit that we've reached the end of ourselves, we've given up, we've let go, we're willing to die to all of our desires to figure it out and be in control. We lose our life, only to find it.

I had not taken the first step in knowledge; I had not learned to let go with the hands, As still I have not learned to with the heart. And have no wish to with the heart—nor need. That I can see. The mind—is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind— Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become "holding on" instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

Don't try to steer the river.