Marya Hornbacher Quotes

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

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

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

But what is past my help is past my care.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

You don't have to give up to let go

Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

Give it all up and you can have it all.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.