Quotes by Letting Go I think I let go of the need for approval. It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself... I could do everything based on how I want to do things. Ellen DeGeneres humorletting-gofunny I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go? Ellen Hopkins eyeletting-gopromise But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope. Emily Maguire regretknowingletting-go After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow — First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go — Emily Dickinson painletting-goheart Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. Emily Dickinson piercingsexpectationsletting-go Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past Emily Giffin love-relationshipletting-gopast I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me. Eminem mirrorsletting-gotwo When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look. Emily Giffin letting-gowritingcharacter Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness. Emmet Fox letting-gonightthinking You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something. Eoin Macken certainletting-goway Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go. Emma Goldman eyeletting-goheart When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please. Epictetus spiritualletting-gothinking This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go--- Emily Dickinson letting-gosnowfirsts You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know. Emily Dickinson letting-gotryingdeath Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go. Eric Reeves doeletting-gocountry You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go. Eric Roth dogletting-godeath Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm spiritualcourageletting-go To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come. Erich Jantsch ambitionletting-goinspirational Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need. Erich Schiffmann letting-golove-isneeds When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are. Erich Schiffmann selfletting-gothinking«2425262728293031323334»
