Letting Go Quotes - Page 8

• It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

  Angelina Jolie

  Moving, Past, Baggage

  "Angelina Holds Nothing Back". Interview with Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 16, 2003.

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• Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

  Pema Chodron

  Comfort, Way, Findings

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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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• The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.

  Debbie Ford

  Soul, Evolution, Lifetime

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• Today let us all ask ourselves whether we are afraid of what God might ask, or of what he does ask.... Do I truly let God into my life? How do I answer him?

  Pope Francis

  Doe, Answers, Might

  Pope Francis (2016). “I Believe: The Promise of the Creed”, p.45, Orbis Books

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• God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. I welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety into my life. I will make a point of listening to my healthy, rational fears, and will relinquish all the others.

  Melody Beattie

  Acceptance, Safety, Healthy

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• See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

  Guy Finley

  Learning, Ideas, Defeated

  Guy Finley (1990). “The Secret of Letting Go”, p.85, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Sight, Done

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.165, Del Rey

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• Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough … and then just let go of all the rest.

  Duane Elgin

  Self, Important, Poverty

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• As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can dream bravely: letting go of your limiting beliefs and pushing past your fears. You can start to come up with a truly original dream that germinates in your soul and bears fruit in your life.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Past, Soul

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Sep 16, 2014

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• Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not hold on? Gratitude greases the joints to let us let go, and at the same time to stop and realize we received something. Gratitude is the most developed and mature of human emotions.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Gratitude, Grease, Joints

  Natalie Goldberg (2014). “The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

  Tom Shadyac

  Swim, Needs, Outcomes

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• Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

  James MacDonald

  Son, Church, Glory

  James MacDonald (2012). “Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.”, p.13, David C Cook

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• Today I will focus on a peaceful pace, rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. I will let go of my need to be anxious and upset and will replace these feelings with calmness and harmony.

  Melody Beattie

  Moving, Focus, Upset

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• 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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• 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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• Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Pain, Emotional, Needs

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• Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am.

  Melody Beattie

  People, Needs, Today

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• The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Curiosity, Quality

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• Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Doe, Holding On

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• We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.

  Alan Cohen

  Doe, Magnificence

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• The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able to enter into the Heart of God within us, and there make an Indissoluble Marriage, which makes us the Friend and Spouse of the Repairer … there is no other way to arrive at this Holy Initiation than for us to delve more and more into the depth of our Soul and to not let go of the prize until we have succeeded in liberating its lively and vivifying origin.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Heart, Soul, Depth

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• Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?

  Andrew Hargadon

  Knowledge, Ideas, Doe

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• We don't have to believe the story of our lives we've been told. You're not the same person you were when you first had sex and not the same as you'll be five years down the line. All redefining yourself requires is the bravery to be fearless, and let go of the judgments.

  Laura Berman

  Sex, Believe, Years

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• To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Team, Ego

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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