Letting Go Quotes

"I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties."

"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."

"What's gone and what's past help should be past grief."

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

John Berry

"Some people think that it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go."

Sylvia Robinson

"What has passed is past."

Harivansh Rai Bachchan

"Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad."

Christina Rossetti

"Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself."

Deborah Reber

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

Charlotte Brontë

"If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace."

Ajahn Chah

"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go."

Jack Kornfield

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

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

Kahlil Gibran

"You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts."

Kahlil Gibran

“Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day.”

“As racing drivers, you always have those moments that it gets a bit heated, but then you start from zero again.”

“Sometimes in the past, I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.”

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.”

“Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.”

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”

“Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.”

"He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me": in those who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease.”

“The teaching is like a raft, for crossing over, not for holding on to.”

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day."