#letting

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#forgiveness #inspirational-quotes #knowledge #letting-go #forgiveness

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. ↗

— Stephen King

#freedom #friends #friendship #letting-go #freedom

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen. ↗

— Jason Williams

#him #his #i #just #letting

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#blossom #contend #culture #flourishing #flowers

Life is not about control or making things happen in the ways we think they should happen. In fact, it's rather arrogant for us to be on this planet that's been here for so long and expect to be able to control life on it. If we want to see changes, then our task is to set things in motion, not to micromanage and make them happen in the ways we think they should. If we have something that is possessing us, such as alcohol or our television sets or our cell phones, then it could be time to let it go and move on with our lives. If we're holding on to resentment and anger, we're simply raising our own stress levels and blood pressure, but we're not contributing anything positive to the situation--and it's time to let it go. ↗

— Tom Walsh

#change #control #let-go #letting-go #releasing

The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you’re in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don’t control. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #let-go #letting-go #life #move-on

The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. ↗

— Edmund de Waal

#letting-go #art

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#changing #inspirational #labels #letting-go #life

When I was a senior in high school, I was playing in this local band in our town, and I really wanted to be a musician for a living, and it didn’t look like that was going to happen with my band. So, I enrolled in college and stuff. My senior year had ended, and I was going through the anxiety of like, ‘I guess I’m an adult now kind of’ and I was really yearning for a direction. And, I remember like sitting in my back one day, and I was praying alone, and I remember God said, just give up. Just let go of this worry and this need for direction and I will give you direction. ↗

— Pat Seals

#flyleaf #inspirational #jesus #letting-go #patrick

He says, "But it is really whatever, you know? You've saved me way more times. And we call ourselves friends." It doesn't matter what we call ourselves, really. "You already saved me," I say. "That was nothing." "I'm not talking about the cave." He wrinkles his nose. "That first day," I say, "When you got up on the rocks to flirt with a human boy." He smiles big, with all his ground-down teeth shining. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#loved-and-lost #no-labels-needed #love