2,179 Quotes About Letting-go

The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.