Quotes about letting-go

Forgive yourself for accepting less than you deserved. But don't do it again.

It's okay if you don't know how to move on. Start with something easier, like not going back.

You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions.

To find peace, sometimes you have to be willing to lose your connection with people, places, and things that create all the noise in your life.

Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. It is to be able to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

There is no need to aspire to greatness. If you go beyond concerns of 'what about me,' you will anyway be a great human being.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Using no way as way; having no limitation as limitation.

Accept everything just the way it is.

Do not regret what you have done.

Be detached from desire your whole life long.

“He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me” — in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease.

Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe." He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

Marry, and you will regret it. Do not marry, and you will also regret it. Marry or do not marry, you will regret it either way.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back.

Normalize protecting your peace.

Collect moments, not things.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

What is meant for you will not pass you by.

Trust the timing of your life.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

For the first time, I opened myself to the tender indifference of the world.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

When people throw stones at you, don’t throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.

Two things prevent us from happiness: living in the past and observing others.

If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.

You do not have to be good. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.

I hope the exit is joyful, and I hope never to return.

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death, but on life.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

The money we possess is the instrument of freedom; the money we pursue is the instrument of servitude.

Man is condemned to be free.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Stand a little out of my sun.