Letting Go Quotes
Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. – Dalai Lama
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Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. – Ralph Marston
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. – Seneca
Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. – Daphne Rose Kingma
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty. – Leo F. Buscaglia
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist
You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. – Guy Finley
Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. – Anais Nin
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. – Havelock Ellis
The mental and physical space we create by letting go of things that belong in our past gives us…the option to fill the space with something new. – Susan Fay West
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. – Tao Te Ching
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. – Herman Hesse
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
To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit. – Jack Kornfield
We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell
You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go. – Jessica Hatchigan
You can only lose what you cling to. – Buddha