Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Salzberg

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering and to simply let go of the thoughts and begin again. It is a way of changing our relationship to our thoughts, so we're not so consumed by them, with no sense of space. Having a newly spacious relationship to our thoughts brings both peace and freedom.

Sharon Salzberg

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.

Natalie Goldberg

Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not hold on? Gratitude greases the joints to let us let go, and at the same time to stop and realize we received something. Gratitude is the most developed and mature of human emotions.

Natalie Goldberg

Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no reason except gravity. Why gravity? For no reason. And why did you plant red tulip bulbs to begin with? For beauty, which is itself and has no reason. So the world is empty. Things rise and fall for no reason. And what a great opportunity that is! You can start writing again at any minute. Let go of all your failures and sit down and write something great. Or write something terrible and feel great about it.

Taylor Swift

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

Taylor Swift

Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.

Tara Brach

The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you the courage you need to let go of the controls. In doing so, you might discover that each time you let go, it becomes easier and easier to re-enter the atmosphere of your own aliveness. Gradually you’ll come home to the flow of your own living presence, the warmth and space of your awakening heart.

Swami Vivekananda

Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

Tony Parsons

Love means knowing when to let go.

Simone Elkeles

He may be out of my life physically, but he'll always be a part of me. I can't let go even if I wanted to.

Simon Sinek

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

Tom Weston-Jones

In my normal time, I like bacon sarnies, I smoke and I drink coffee. I do look after myself, but sometimes I allow myself to just let go a bit.

Tom Scholz

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Shawn Achor

When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.

Shakti Gawain

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

Rick Riordan

The Set animal’s jaws were pried open so fast that it yelped and let go of my arm. I stood, now encased in a magical barrier twice my normal size, and kicked Leroy into a wall. Good! said Horus. Now dispatch the beast to the netherworld! Quiet man. I’m doing all the work.

Tim Hansel

Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

Robert Anthony

We will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.

Robert Adams

Let go of the thoughts, let go of the mind, let go of everything. Let go! Drop it! Drop everything. Hold onto nothing.

Robert Adams

The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.

Rihanna

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

Stevie Nicks

When you're hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.

Richard Carlson

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Reggie Watts

Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

Regina Brett

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

Regina Brett

Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

Regina Brett

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Tom Shadyac

Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

Thomas Keating

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

Thomas Keating

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

Victor Hugo

But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go.