Letting Go Quotes

THE POWER OF LETTING GO

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell

We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired. – Charles Fillmore

The hardest part of anything is the beginning, and the second hardest part is letting go when it’s the end. – E. Fritz

There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go. – Jessica Hatchigan

As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don’t try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break. – Julia Butterfly Hill

Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash a burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies farther than they even planned or imagined, to places they didn’t know they knew. All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently to deserve them. – Ursula K. LeGuin

The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go
is God’s law. – Mary Manin Morrissey

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. – Rumi

Trying creates impossibilities, letting go creates what is desired. – Stalking Wolf, Apache elder

Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. – Zen saying

We have to do our very best, and then let God do the rest. – Luanne Shackleford

Do thou thy task, and leave the rest to God. – Lewis Carroll

Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself. – Oswald Chambers

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you. – Meister Eckhart

Pray, and let God worry. – Martin Luther

The trouble is, we won’t let god help us. – George Mac Donald

Do your very best, but after that leave the matter entirely to God. Here you find the secret of beauty of a man’s life. After all your efforts have ended, believe that God will take the best care, and rest in His holy arms. It would be very out of place for a small child to say to his mother, when being led by the hand on the way to the market, “Mother, I won’t go with you because I cannot believe in you.” There is no need to lose your mind if even you get sick or undergo suffering, or even if you fail in your school examinations, if you are doing your best. – Toyohiko Kagawa