Rumi Quotes

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

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

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

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Surrender to the flow.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

I love change, I need it.

We don't have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isn't working, we can and should change.

Surrender is working with what happens.

I love and embrace change.

You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

Change is the healthiest way to survive.

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

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