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

“I must let go of my need for the world to love me.”

“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”

Source: Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

“In order to make room for more of God in our life, we need to let go of things that are currently filling our heart and reorder the things that are not ordered properly in Him. The importance of an appropriate detachment from the things of the world-or as they sometimes speak of it, the putting of our lives into the right-is stressed by all the spiritual writers.”

World Needs Heart Sometimes Spiritual Order Speak Rooms Our Lives Letting Go Importance Appropriate Filling Detachment Stressed

Book:The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints

Source: The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints

“There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this. I will triumph over you.”

Ifs World Firsts May I Can Real Whole Fantasy Comfort Letting Go First Time Built Independent Clarity Curious Triumph Over You Agony Numbness Vistas

Author:Julie Berry

“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

People World Believe Kind Children Two Reason Choices Father Poor Break Needed Letting Go Desperate Sheep Child Of God Needed Love

Book:Far North

Source: Far North

“Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of egolessness, the world won't disappear, as you may think it will. The world will continue, but a change takes place within you. Something is uncovered. You start seeing everything with the wonder and innocence of a child.”

Thinking World May Children States Wonder Seeing Letting Go Ego Insight Disappear Likes Innocence Within You

Book:Awaken Children Vol. 8

Source: Awaken Children Vol. 8

“We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.”

Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year

“To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.”

World Mean Perfect Attention This World Letting Go Enlightenment Planes Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.”

World Way Facts Found Existence Objects Letting Go Categories Contrast Sublime Threshold

Book:The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

Source: The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

“There's a conspiracy / to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, / it's why you travel - it's a way of trying / to let go, of lying. You don't sit / in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. / Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. / ... / You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. / Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, / ... / Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. / The acid of your fear could eat the world.”

“The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.”

World Found Christ Our Lives Risk Security This World Letting Go Safety Deny Surrender Great Risk

Author:David Platt

“If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.”

“True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.”

People World Real Law Found Lost Perfect Levels Letting Go Office Authority Argument Heal Rational Explanation Theological Real Power

Author:Richard Rohr

“The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.”

World Heart Grief Compassion Letting Go Honored

Book:The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

Source: The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West

“I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.”

World Want Moving This World Greatness Letting Go Gravity Forsake

Author:David Platt

“I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go.”

Thinking World Real Ends Character Stories Letting Go Draws Asking Unable To Let Go

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.”

“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

“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”

“People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.”

People World Pure Letting Go Harm

Author:Meister Eckhart

“One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out into the world, you have to let go of it.”

World Writing Courses Letting Go Complicated Narcissism Sail

Author:Bill Ayers

“First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.”

World Way Want Firsts Looks Ideas Faces Language Loses Secret Higher Discipline Exercise Letting Go Flow Impulse Aspiration Messengers Losing Yourself Carrier

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.”

Thinking World Giving Looks Heart Long Left Break One Thing Love You My Heart Letting Go Giving Up Daughter Wake Up Absolutes Realization My Daughter Saddest Breaking My Heart

Author:Moby

“I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.”

People Thinking World Truth Is Conflict Letting Go Unable To Let Go

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Don't expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim.”

Ifs World Want Trying Seeing Letting Go Projects Victim Blame Try Your Best Seeing Yourself

Author:Sharon Gannon

“I think being really open to this new world of online and what it means to be online. Also, understanding that maybe it's time to let go of the 90-minute experience and realize that all of the content that comes on top of the 90-minute film experience, [that] there's a lot of that, especially with documentaries.”

Thinking World Mean Film Understanding Realizing Minutes Letting Go Online New World Being Real Documentaries Time To Let Go

Author:Alex Stapleton

“My conjecture is that most people will refuse to let go, even when their lives have become boring (at least in comparisons with possible lives lived by new generations). If this happens, there will eventually be no room for new generations. A kind of collective irrationality will lead to a bleak life for the last generation that decides to stay around. Unless we put and end to the human race (through global warming, for example), before this happens, individual egoism will block the path to a better world.”

“We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection.”

World Way Government Letting Go Mass Around The World Collections Surveillance Weasels

Author:Edward Snowden

“I have seen what is to come in this world and I understand how I fit in. I fit in protecting the animals because many more are to die before we all stand up. I see who I have become because I had to die to be able to let go of consciousness.”

World Able Dies Animal Consciousness This World Fit Letting Go

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“There's a massive community in church. You have a real home. You can move to different parts of the world and you'll always find a church and a community. When you let go of church, you don't have that comfort, you don't have that safety net anymore.”

World Different Real Home Moving Community Church Comfort Letting Go Safety Safety Net

Author:Michaela Coel

“I'm pretty afraid of death. People have told me that they're not afraid, but I certainly am. The things of the world matter to me. It's hard to imagine letting go.”

People World Imagine Letting Go Not Afraid Afraid Of Death

Author:Victoria Redel

“Let's face it, fashion was destroyed by HIV. People would just die like flies in the eighties. Then, my brother died of HIV, so I was shaken by it in a way that you cannot imagine. It has sadly been in my life ever since and affected it for such a long time. It won't let go. To me, it's a fight that's not finished. Of course, there are medicines that help, but half the world has no access to them.”

People World Long Helping Fighting Imagine Fashion Brother Letting Go My Brother Brother Died

Author:Carla Bruni

“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

World Love Life Able Three Fear Knowing Relationship This World Depends Letting Go Romantic Bones Mortals Inspirational Love Three Things Let It Go Sad Love

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”

World Hard Left Teach Letting Go Ashes Clutch Hard To Let Go

Book:A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”

World Energy Difficult Loses Loss Relationship Identity Letting Go Psychiatrist Deceased

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.”

World Havens This World Letting Go Shoes Panic

Author:Terry Pratchett

“How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?”

Source: Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”

World Needs Enough Happens Beautiful Remember Records Share Letting Go Paint Photograph Points In Life

Author:Toni Morrison

“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”

World Stills Hands Found Letting Go Despite Holocaust Pajamas Mayhem Shmuel

Author:John Boyne

“Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.”

People World Way Want God Helping Christian Time Faith Jesus Grows Change Alive Listening Letting Go Christian Inspirational Christian Faith Being A Better Person Change God Morphing

Author:Rob Bell

“The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds”

World Mind Heart Space Views Practice Journey Movement Letting Go Mirrors Generosity Joyful Outer Worlds Inner Journey

Book:A Heart as Wide as the World

Source: A Heart as Wide as the World

“Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.”

World Way Matter Might Behinds Letting Go Fearful Despised Unable To Let Go

Book:Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

“Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because they're held here so lightly: they haven't yet accumulated loves and responsibilities and commitments and all the things that tie us securely to this world. They can let go of it as easily and simply as lifting a finger. But as you get older, you begin to find things that are worth holding onto, forever.”

World Young Dies Causes Responsibility Forever Havens This World Letting Go Commitment Suicide Fingers Soldier Ties Martyr Lifting Love And Responsibility

Author:Tana French

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.”

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard? When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.”

World Said Hard Facts Home Seems Felt Enjoy Difficult Simple Please Letting Go Picks Hardest Dialogue Miserable Internals Freak Hardest Thing Jason Just Let Go

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was for doing that thing to that woman. Come down out of the skies, you God, come on down and I'll hammer your face all over the city of Los Angeles, you miserable unpardonable prankster. If it wasn't for you, this woman would not have been so maimed, and neither would the world, (...)”

Ifs World Has Beens Faces Cities Sky Cry Letting Go Down And Miserable Dirty Los Angeles Your Face Hammers Crooks Pranksters

Author:John Fante

“It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions that want to take over your mind. It is a daily struggle sometimes and hard work but happiness begins with your own attitude and how you look at the world.”

World Want Mind Looks Sometimes Hard Moments Attitude Struggle Inspire Hard Work Letting Go Appreciate Obsession Smallest Live In The Moment Daily Struggle

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.”

“She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.”

World Book Running Arms Months Gratitude Letting Go Fingers Affection Lust Sat Cheeks Fabric Desks Columns Manuscripts Hem

Author:Anthony Marra

“Try to let go of the idea that you need to do yoga perfectly in order to see its benefits. Rather, let it be a process of waking up to who you really are. If you do this, you will know joy. And that joy will be your gift to a world that very much needs our healing.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Trying Ideas Joy Order Process Healing Letting Go Benefits Yoga Wake Up Waking

Author:Darren Main

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