L Quotes
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“Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.”
Source: Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
“Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay, they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.”
“Letting go is not giving up. Letting go means you learned the lesson, gained the insight from a situation and make a deliberate choice to not holding a grudge and moving on with your life.”
Source: The Path to Healing & Happiness: How to recover from physical and emotional pain
“Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.”
“Letting go is one of the most difficult experiences to deal with whether it's right or wrong. So make the most of every moment you've been gifted with. To whoever you initiate contact with and wherever, try to leave a positive impression. To whoever you have the power to make smile, exploit that power as often and best as you can, because when every other material thing fades, it's those memories that keep us alive”
“Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain you caused them is that same pain you feel now.”
“Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They're so afraid of eternity. They're so afraid of life. They're so afraid of what's on the other side of death. There is nothing but light. God is everywhere.”
“Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?”
“Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it”
Source: Just Friends Never Lovers
“Letting go is the only way to inner peace. Let go and flow with Life. Trust the process. What is meant to happen alone will happen. No matter what you think, do, pray or wish.”
“Letting go is the ultimate weakness.”
“Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…”
“Letting go is to love yourself enough to look at the past with a different perspective. It is to accept that you can't change the past, but that you can change whether your perspective poisons or nourishes you.”
“Letting go isn’t about forgetting; it’s about learning and moving on. It’s making a choice to be strengthened by your past… not strangled by it.”
“Letting go isn't about forgetting. It's balancing moving forward with life, and looking back from time to time, remembering the people in it.”
“Letting go isn’t about having the courage to release the past; it’s about having the wisdom to embrace the present.”
“Letting go isn’t losing—it’s making space for what truly belongs to you.”
Source: Awareness: Reclaim Your Eternal Essence, Your True Essence
“Letting go isn’t losing love, it’s making space for the kind that won’t hurt you.”
“Letting go isn’t loss — it’s alignment. You weren’t designed to carry dead weight when your spirit was born to soar. God's love doesn’t adjust to your seasons; it anchors you through them.”
“Letting go isn't giving up. It's understanding that the best is yet to come.”
Source: More Notes From the Universe: Life, Dreams and Happiness
“Letting go looks different for everyone, I think. Sometimes it's as simple as waking up one day and deciding not to let your past rule you. Other times it's a process; slow moving and painful, like trudging through a forest of thorny vines in hopes that you'll find freedom on the other side.”
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
“Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.”
Source: More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations
“Letting go meant you accepted what couldn't be changed. You didn't try to hold on to hope in order to coerce a change in fortune...nor did you battle against superior forces of fate and try to make them capitulate to your will...nor did you beg for salvation because you assumed you knew better. Letting go meant you stared at what was before you with clear eyes, recognizing that unfettered choice was the exception and destiny the rule.”
Source: Lover Unbound
“Letting go of attachments to material possessions, relationships, or past experiences that stifle or no longer serve us can be liberating and allow us to move forward with our lives. When we contain our 'loss aversion,' we learn to bounce back from setbacks and master the qualities for navigating life's challenges. We can
convert the terror of loss aversion into a mindset leading to greater freedom and personal empowerment. (“Paper Boats Forever »)”
“Letting go of control, that's actually when you're safe.”
“Letting go of expectation allowed me to celebrate even the smallest victories, to be utterly in the winning moment and thankful for my current state.”
Source: Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds
“Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we become free of it. Whatever we fixate upon limits us because fixation makes us dependent upon something other than ourselves. Each time we let go of something, we experience another level of freedom.”
“Letting go of hope is sometimes the most optimistic thing you can do.”
Source: Coming Home
“Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.”
“Letting go of judgment and accepting others just as they are is difficult. However, it’s one of the most powerful Thoughtfully Fit practices. Flexibility teaches us the value of acceptance—full and unconditional acceptance of others. Even, or maybe especially, when you don’t agree with their choices or behaviors. It’s much easier to accept others when we agree with them 100 percent.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“Letting go of lack and embracing abundance opens doors.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams
“Letting go of lack and embracing abundance opens doors to a life of prosperity and divine sustenance.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams
“Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.”
“Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.”
“Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.”
Source: Healing into Life and Death
“Letting go of painful memories warms up the body, mind, and spirit”
“Letting go of people doesn’t mean you never loved them. Sometimes, it is the greatest act of love because it teaches them to be accountable for how they treat people who care. Maybe, not now, but years from now, they will look back and realize that kindness is more than yelling casual suggestions to a person that is drowning in their sea of apathy.”
“Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.”
“Letting go of rational thought, he surrendered himself to instinct, to the odd quirk within that made him one with machines. The same quirk that had melded him almost effortlessly with his prosthetic limb and perhaps was the reason he’d lost none of his connection with the Force, even though his arm and hand were made of metal.”
Source: Star Wars: Stealth
“Letting go of resentment or hurt allows you to take your power back. Forgiveness isn't about saying what happened to you is okay. It is about living your life in the present and letting go of the past.”
“Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.”
Source: A Lotus Grows in the Mud
“Letting go of someone you loved wasn't hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn't let them go they were still gone.”
Source: Waterfall
“Letting go of stress means that you can enjoy your life.”
“Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.”
“Letting go of that hope meant letting go of James, which was like letting go of air, toes letting go of nails, and fairly comparable to
everyone letting go of electricity in our time. That bad.
But in the meantime, this would be a distraction. Purgatory. With drinks and meeting new people, more time to focus on
lesson planning and craftwork, art galleries, miniature museums. Anything to keep the thoughts away from drowning the itsy bit of sanity left. She’d even settle for a state of
temporary trance.”
Source: Lost in Amber
“Letting go of the belief that we’re powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our ability not only to heal but also to genuinely love and receive the love of others.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Letting go of the cozy stories you've been carrying around is devastating. But there's more room for new stuff after you do it.”
“Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.”
“Letting go of the need to control things doesn’t mean letting go of responsibility. It means embracing life.”