2,179 Quotes About Letting-go

With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.

The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

It’s amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down, or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

Letting go is actually a healthy foundation upon which we can open up to real love—to giving, receiving, and experiencing it authentically and organically.

Fall for me, Aimee. I’ll catch you. Let go, baby.

She became fascinated by the statue of Edith Cavell and would stand at the base of it in the freezing cold of a December morning, looking up: -Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone-. Sometimes those words made her cry. The tears would come uncontrollably and they would not stop. And in those moments Anna found forgiveness and it made her free. But they were only moments. Forgiveness is a hard thing to hang on to.

The happiest people are the one who have mastered life's hardest lesson. They've learned how to let go,