27 Quotes About Letting Go to Inspire Renewal

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
Pema Chödrön

To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
Pema Chödrön

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.
Pema Chödrön

Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
Deborah Reber

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
Brené Brown

You only lose what you cling to.
Buddha

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
Sharon Salzberg

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The ultimate act of power is surrender.
Krishna Das

Deep letting go can bring us to a place where we may feel the groundlessness of our being. This can be very terrifying, so we hold on. But if we can move beyond the fear, we may see that these feelings are really the precursor to freedom.
Ruth King

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The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
Carl Jung

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
Alice Walker

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.
Margaret Wheatley

Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.
Daphne Rose Kingma

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Herman Hesse

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Steve Maraboli

Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.
Jackson Kiddard

Let go, or be dragged.
Zen Proverb

Let go of the need to control the outcome. Trust the process. Trust your intuition. Trust yourself.
Unknown

You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.
Ralph Marston

Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.
Brené Brown

Letting go is the hardest yoga pose.
Judith Hanson Lasater

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.
Socrates

To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clinging and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.
Jack Kornfield

Letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.
Unknown

[Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.
Judith Hanson Lasater