Best letting-go & expectations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.”

Virtue Letting Go Expectations Renunciation Piercings

Source: Dickinson

“We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.”

“When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.”

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“I know most of my records are real good but I know that there are definitely things I would've changed at the end of the day. I work on things forever, and there are things I wish I didn't do, but ultimately I know the records are good. I kind of let go of big expectations, maybe because hopefully that means if I don't have them, that it'll do really well, but you just never know.”

Ifs Knows Wells Kind Mean Real Ends Bigs Wish Forever Records Changed Letting Go Expectations Hopefully The End Of The Day

Author:Kurt Vile

“I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."”

Ifs World Trying Done Acting Depends Letting Go Approach Expectations Passionate Intensity Acting As If

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdown—like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.”

“To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.”

Men Looks Long Whole Hands Past Goal Our Lives Letting Go Expectations Vain Serving Temporary Ads Interim

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.”

Knows Inspirational Past Order Perfect Letting Go Expectations Being Single

Author:Guy Finley

“The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.”

Thinking Knows Self Secret Letting Go Expectations Attachment Unhappiness Anguish

Book:The Secret of Letting Go

Source: The Secret of Letting Go

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.”

“Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.”

Needs Home Dies Opinion Regret Letting Go Judgment Expectations Breaths Ease Frustration Approval Soar Craving Fatigue Luminous

Author:Surya Das

“...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.”

Accepting Serious Letting Go Expectations Uptight

Book:Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”

Looks Time Chance Loss Power Depends Future Letting Go Expectations Certainty Uncertainty Time Management Delay Relinquishing

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering.”

World Mind Feelings Suffering Lost Grief Accepting Letting Go Expectations Anger Disappointment Rage Familiar Confusion Internals Trapped

Book:Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Source: Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

“There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'”

Feels Stills Enough Moments Body Magic Shapes Letting Go Expectations Stress Opening Bliss Bullets Body Image Pills Make You Happy Transcendent

Author:Anne Hathaway

“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.”

Mind Letting Go Expectations Praise Rewards Inner Peace Generosity

Author:Ajahn Chah

“There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.”

Victory Letting Go Expectations Surrender Letting Go And Moving On

Author:Mike White

“It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.”

People Ifs Matter Eye Able Born Half Crazy Letting Go Perception Expectations Versions Being True Supposed To Be Eccentric

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.”

Mean Persons Past Grief Letting Go Expectations Shame Blame Grieving Mourning Censure

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.”

Needs I Can Two Ideas Strong Sports Gone Alive Letting Go Eating Expectations Pressure Decades Consumed No Pressure Can't Let Go

Author:Clara Hughes

“Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.”

Way Needs Differences Letting Go Expectations And Love Loved Ones Regulation Requirements Rules And Regulations

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.”

Ifs Ideas Views Attitude Letting Go Expectations Taoism Tao

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But when we let go of everything, open ourselves to any truth, and see the world without fear or judgement, then we are finally able to begin the process of peeling off the shell of false identity that prevents our true self from growing and shining in to the world.”

World Should Self Able Process Vision Growing Identity Letting Go Expectations Remains Shining Judgement Who We Are Shells True Self Clouded Peeling

Author:Paul Buchheit

“The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.”

Home Artist Support Doubt Danger Ready Letting Go Expectations Extraordinary Bars Uncertainty Excitement Destination Adulthood Adolescence Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Paul Tournier

“Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.”

Way Moments Meditation Letting Go Judgment Mindfulness Expectations Strategy Ancient Opening Attachment Entitlement Judgment Of Others

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“Let what you give come through you rather than from you. There is no lack this way. Be truly unconditional in what you give so that there can be no fear or loss. ... If you experience conflict, lack, or struggle today, let go of expectations, demands, and aiming to get something. Give yourself unconditionally . The Unconditioned Self is never diminished, and you cannot lose.”

Ifs Way Giving Self Today Loses Loss Struggle Demand Conflict Letting Go Expectations No Fear Unconditional

Author:Robert Holden

“Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place.”

Sometimes Dream Universe Broken Letting Go Expectations Your Dreams Broken Dreams

Book:More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

Source: More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

“I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.”

People Letting Go Expectations

Author:Louise Hay

“In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.”

Thinking Should Matter Seems Letting Go Expectations Fixed Outcomes Attachment

Author:Deepak Chopra

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