Letting Go Quotes - Page 23

• There comes a point in your life when you realize:
  Who matters,
  Who never did,
  Who won't anymore,
  And who always will.
  So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Life, Future, Past

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• The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

  George Ohsawa

  Wisdom, Struggle, Mind

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• There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

  Michael Pollan

  Offending, People, Democracy

  "Fire, Water, Air, Earth: Michael Pollan Gets Elemental In 'Cooked'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 21, 2013.

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• Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go.

  Eileen Caddy

  Life Is, Force, Flowers And Gardens

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• Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Fruit, Empty

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• Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

  Joel Osteen

  Mediocrity, Good Enough, Settling

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Remember You, Remembers You, Desire

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• What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?

  Parker J. Palmer

  Giving, Want

  "Today in the Mind of Parker J. Palmer". Cojourneo Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what’s in your hand.

  Sonia Choquette

  Hands, Want, Firsts

  Sonia Choquette (2010). “Trust Your Vibes: Secret Tools for Six-Sensory Living”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

  Adyashanti

  Meditation, Experience

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• Trust your Heart.  Value its intuition.  Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being

  Mooji

  Heart, Joy, Intuition

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• You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.

  Lenore Skenazy

  Dad, Bars, Remember

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• You don't have to move on to let go.

  Kaskade

  Moving

  Song: I Remember

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• An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Goal, Meditation, Important

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• We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Block, Heart

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• Grace surrounds us and holds us like the sky holds everything in it … and as soon as I find a way to let go of my story, I keep seeing over and over again that grace is always here and it includes the forgetting and the remembering. The practice is the opening of the hand to catch the raindrops, which are always falling. If you don't open your hand, you get wet, but you don't get much to drink.

  Krishna Das

  Fall, Hands, Practice

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Mar 21, 2017

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• Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sister, Remember, True Best Friend

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• In film, you have to let go sometimes.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Sometimes, Film

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

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• It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.

  Kate Elliott

  Pride, Vanity, Greed

  Kate Elliott (2009). “Traitors' Gate”, p.877, Macmillan

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• I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will not let go. I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it...forever. Or at least I'm going to try.'

  Jason Silva

  Thinking, Forever, Trying

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• We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot.

  Joyce Meyer

  Needs, Can Do

  Twitter post from May 24, 2012

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• Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Past, Taught, Never Forget

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2014

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• There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Simple, Giving

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• There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

  Morris West

  Hands, Want, Clinging

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• If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen

  Mariah Carey

  Believe, Soul, Don't Let Go

  Song: Make It Happen, Album: Emotions, 1991

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