Quotes about Letting go

How free you can become if you stop worrying about things that don't concern you!

There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.

Over and over again I have to make small decisions here and there, in regard to one or other. Distractions and obsessions are resolved in this way. What the resolution amounts to, in the end: letting go of the imaginary and the absent and returning to the present, the real, what is in front of my nose.

The tighter you squeeze the less you have.

One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:13-14).

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.

My old age is a precious gift. My brain still works. I like my brain. I feel lighter. I am free of self-doubt, irrational desires, useless complexes, and other deadly sins that are not worth the trouble. I am letting go…letting go. I should have started earlier.

I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.

Be God or let God.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.