Mary McDonald

44 Quotes About The Power Of Letting Go, For When You Feel Lost And Stuck

Letting go is the slow process of realizing you were given space to re-structure the life you have always wanted and needed to live. The pain of letting go is realizing there is nothing left to distract you from this work. There is a reason people say the
Brianna Wiest
June 1, 2016
“If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.”
— Robert Elias, Rethinking Peace
Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Minimalism & Simplicity
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”
— Eric Roth, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Tagged: The Person You'll Become, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy, Love
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”
— Michael Crichton, Disclosure
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“I have been absolutely terrified of everything in my life, but I never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. ”
— Georgia O'Keeffe, Some Memories of Drawings
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy, Psychology
“If you expect the battle to be insurmountable, you've met the enemy. It's you.”
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen, Khang Kijarro Quotes
Tagged: How To Think, Psychology, Philosophy, Life
“If you feel like you don't fit in this world, it's because you're here to help create a new one. ”
— Unknown, Purpose
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“It's as if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.”
— David Vann, Aquarium
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
— Angela Davis, Talk At Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Tagged: Transformation, Change, Reform, Oppression, Overcoming Oppression, Idealism, ENFP, INFP
“Reality is what people who lack vision see.”
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
Tagged: Idealism, Change, Making Change, Reality, Realism, Activism, changing the world, Hope
“At the still point, there the dance is.”
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Tagged: The Art of Awareness, How To Think
“There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is the right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.”
— Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Tagged: Courage
“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin
Tagged: Confusion, Life, Challenges, Change, Navigating Change, Uncertainty, Leaning Into Uncertainty
“Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want – you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.”
— Ayn Rand, We The Living
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, How To Think
“Forget what we became, what matters is what we've become, and our potentials to overcome.”
— Aniekee Tochukwu, The Psychology of Friendship For Leadership
Tagged: The Art of Awareness, How To Think, Psychology, Philosophy
“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Tagged: Happiness, Life, Optimism, Cultivating Happiness, Dealing with anxiety, Count Your Blessings
“Sometimes the story we’re telling the world isn’t half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.”
— Donald Miller, Scary Close
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“We don’t think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.”
— Donald Miller, Scary Close
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Stop insisting on clearing your head — clear your fucking heart instead.”
— Charles Bukowski, Selected Letters Vol. 4(1987-1994)
Tagged: Clearing Your Head, Clearing Your Heart, Clarity, Analyzing, Reflection, Introspection
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
— C. Joybell C., Lost
“Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger.”
— Sara Evans, Growth
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.”
— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”
— Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”
— Tony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“What if you could pick one day of your life, and everything would stop changing, every day would be similar and comparable to that one day, you'd always have the same people with you? If you could do that, would you do it? Would you pick that day and make that choice? We crave for things to stop changing, we wish that things would never change. But if we got what we wanted, there are so many things that are better, that we would never, ever know about. Sure, things would stay the same as that one wonderful day, but then there would be nothing else out there, ever. So can you remember the very first day when everything really did begin to change? Is there a thing that can remind you? Mine is a blue rose, and that's when everything began to change because that's the day I began to believe in things I never believed in before; the day I found three blue roses. Think about your first day of change, can you remember all the new heights you've soared since that day? All the new people? All the better things and times? Would you throw all of that time away? I wouldn't. Instead, I want to finally accept all the things that I couldn't change, which led to me being right here, right now. Maybe we all carry around inside us one day we wish we could keep forever, something we wished never did change. It's time to let go of that day, and soar.”
— C. Joybell C., C. Joybell C.
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph.”
— Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.”
— Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy