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"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."
~Lao Tzu~


"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
~Lao Tzu~ Letting go quotes

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so
often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed
door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
~Alexander Graham Bell~

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
~Chinese Proverb~

"Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction."
~Shinjo Ito~

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
~Raymond Lindquist~

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

"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."
~Gerald Jampolsky~

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of
something, loves something and has lost something."
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.~

"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."
~Milan Kundera~

"There's an important difference between giving up and letting go."
~Jessica Hatchigan~

"You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice
that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and
watch them morph into your greatest strengths."
~Neale Donald Walsch~ Letting go quotes

"Stress is an ignorant state.
It believes that everything is an emergency."
~Natalie Goldberg~

"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise
live rent-free in your head."
~Ann Landers~

"To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity."
~Bodhidharma~

"I don't let go of concepts - I meet them with understanding.
Then they let go of me."
~Byron Katie~

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

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment
is the only one you know you have for sure."
~Oprah Winfrey~ Letting go quotes

"Think about any attachments that are depleting
your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go."
~Oprah Winfrey~

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is
that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us."
~Michael Cibenko~

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.
Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."
~Thich Nhat Hanh~ Letting go quotes

"The farther behind I leave the past,
the closer I am to forging my own character."
~Isabelle Eberhardt~

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

"The sun, though it passes through dirty places,
yet remains as pure as before."
~Francis Bacon~

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
~Havelock Ellis~

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up
on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
~Anna Quindlen~

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
~James Dean~ Letting go quotes

"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."
~Debra Messing~

"Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go."
~Kate Winslet~ Letting go quotes

"Every breath is an opportunity to receive and let go.
I receive love and I let go of pain."
~Brenda MacIntyre~

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the life that is waiting for us."
~Joseph Campbell~

"You can only lose what you cling to."
~Buddha~

"Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering.
When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go,
then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you
to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no
one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that
existence wants your life to become a festival."
~Osho~ Letting go quotes

"Ask yourself this question:
"Will this matter a year from now?"
~Richard Carlson Ph.D~

"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them."
~Franz Marc~

"Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties."
~Gail Sheehy~

"Celebrate whatever arises in consciousness
without clinging to anything."
~Hale Dwoskin~ Letting go quotes

"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."
~Anaïs Nin~

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

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
~Booker T. Washington~

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them;
but do not let them master you.
Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
~Helen Keller~

"Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do
about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why
hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?"
~Leo Buscaglia~ Letting go quotes

"You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by.
Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."
~James Matthew Barrie~

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing.
There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow
people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a
time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
~Gloria Naylor~

"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions,
the more likely there's gold in letting go of them."
~John Seely Brown~

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It
means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."
~Karen Casey~

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease.
Hack away at the unessential."
~Bruce Lee~

"Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not.
Add what is uniquely your own."
~Bruce Lee~

"The field of consciousness is tiny.
It accepts only one problem at a time."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."
~Bill Watterson~

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass,
you live more richly those moments.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh~

"When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go,
then you'll come to realize what you were dragging around with you.
And for that, no one else other than you was responsible."
~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh~ Letting go quotes