Top 1200 Not Letting Go Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

I do think that's one of the reasons that acting appealed to me so much: the idea of letting go of control in a controlled environment. Being able to go through the range of intense emotions and jump off the cliff, metaphorically, but in a creative way, and in a way where the structure was really solid.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

In the recovery movement, they call what I'm talking about letting go and letting God. If you're uncomfortable with the word God, just add an o and make it Good. The two words are interchangeable. It just means allowing this divine source of kindness, beauty and creativity to be the dominant force in your life - whatever you're doing. I truly believe that God writes all the books and builds all the bridges. Sure, I sit down for six or seven hours a day with my pen and pads - but the message moves though me and I just allow.

By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

I have realised taking a stand is tough, but what's tougher is maintaining it and letting go of all those who doubt your intent.

The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

I'm just going to go out there knowing my teammates are depending on me to get the job done. I've got to go out and get it done, no letting down.

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

I go into each game with the same mindset of showing people what I can do and letting the rest take care of itself.

Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.

I don't have a problem with letting go of an album once I know I've pretty much done the best that I can.

I worry myself sick about emotional pain, and then I either get on the mat, or get on my bike, and just stop thinking. Sometimes it is hard to let go, and in this modern age, letting go is considered a sign of coldness and a weak mind, but I think it is the exact opposite.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

Since finishing my professional dancing career, I've been conscious of not letting myself go.

As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

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.

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.

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.

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

Finding the right people and giving power and letting them go find value in the world. That's got to be toughest. Really, its like the Spanish court in the 16th century saying, um, take this ship and go see what you can find. You have to believe in your sailors!

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

Pink Champagne is about having fun and letting go, and living your life to the fullest!

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.