Letting Go Quotes - Page 37

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

Sometimes, you just have to let go... and embrace what you've become.

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me. "Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type. "I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles. "I'd be scared to let go," I type. "Afraid you'd fall?" she asks. "No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.

If it's time to let go, JUST LET GO. You can't carry on through life with extra weight on your conscience.

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

To walk, we have to lean forward, lose our balance and begin to fall. We let go constantly of the previous stability, falling all the time, trusting that we will find a succession of new stabilities with each step.

It's all about letting the story take over.

Life should be touched, not strangled.

Look, really look, at how beautiful this day is. Let go of the worries and anxieties and judgments, and see the beauty.

There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if you know how to allow love - if you know how to ALLOW, then you know the art of life. In the allowing, in the let-go, in the surrender, is the art of life. How not to be and to let God be - that is the only art of life.

A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others.

Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye.

I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me.

I know I promised. I said, 'Ask, seek, knock and you will find.' You say, 'But I have found loss. I have found dispossession. I have found letting go.' And I would say to you that until you dispossess what you have you can never possess what I want to give to you. Until you surrender your understanding, you will never get My wisdom. You would say, 'Lord, what is at the end of this process?'

Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.

Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.