Quotes about Letting go

Letting go allows us to make room for the bigger things that are in store for us.

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need... I live more simply now, and with more peace.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and the psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

The field of consciousness is tiny.  It accepts only one problem at a time.

Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.

Stress is poison.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

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.

It's all about letting the story take over.

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.