13 Peace of Mind Quotes That Help You Let Go With Grace
The letting go with grace is not the giving up or the resignation or the not-caring that the holding-on orientation most commonly and most defensively interprets it as from the inside of the holding. It is the specific, practiced, honest releasing of the thing being held too tightly for the peace the releasing most directly produces and the holding was most specifically costing from the grip that was most essentially preventing the peace the releasing was most essentially making available. The grace in the letting go is the specific quality of the releasing that acknowledges the genuine difficulty of what is being released while most specifically choosing the peace of the releasing over the continued cost of the holding.
These 13 peace of mind quotes are chosen for the specific quality of the letting-go-with-grace illumination they most directly provide. Each one carries a particular truth about what the releasing most essentially is, what it most specifically requires, and what the peace of mind most directly becomes available from when the holding has been most gracefully and most honestly released. Read them slowly and from the honest inside of whatever is currently being held too tightly.
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Get the Free Self-Care Starter Kit1. The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. — Steve Maraboli
“The letting go with grace is not the giving up or the not-caring. It is the specific, practiced, honest releasing of the thing being held too tightly for the peace the releasing most directly produces and the holding was most specifically costing from the grip that was most essentially preventing the peace the releasing was most essentially making available.”
This peace of mind quote from Steve Maraboli carries the specific, forward-movement-enabling truth about what the letting go with grace most essentially and most practically is from the inside of the not-yet-released: the letting go is the realization that the situation is over. The situation most specifically being held is the over-situation that the forward movement is most specifically waiting for the realization of. The forgiveness of the self, the forgiveness of the situation, and the realization of the over are the three specific components of the letting go that the peace of mind and the forward movement are most directly waiting behind. Realize the situation is over. The peace of mind is most specifically available from the realization that the letting go was most essentially requiring.
2. Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. — Deborah Reber
This peace of mind quote from Deborah Reber carries the specific, misconception-clearing truth about what the letting go with grace most honestly is rather than the giving-up-the-caring interpretation the holding-on orientation most commonly and most defensively assigns to it: the letting go is not the not-caring. It is the specific, honest, grace-available realizing of what is most specifically within the control and what is most specifically outside it. The caring continues. The controlling of the other person does not. The peace of mind is most directly available from the letting go of the control that was most specifically outside the available and the accepting of the self as the only person the control is most specifically within. Let go of the control. Keep the caring. The peace of mind grows from the distinction the Reber quote most directly names.
3. You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk. — Louise Smith
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. The peace of mind is most directly available from letting go of the control that was most specifically outside the available while keeping the caring that was most genuinely present.”
This peace of mind quote from Louise Smith carries the specific, hands-full, new-things-prevented truth about the relationship between the holding and the receiving that the letting go with grace most directly enables from the emptied hands: the hands still full of yesterday’s junk are the hands most specifically unavailable for the reaching of anything new. The peace of mind and the new things available from the reaching are most specifically behind the letting go of the yesterday’s junk that the hands are most currently full of. Let go of what is filling the hands from the yesterday. The reaching for the new is most directly available from the emptied hands the letting go most specifically produces from the releasing of the junk the yesterday was most specifically filling them with.
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Visit Premier Print Works4. Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotional life. — Pema Chödrön
This peace of mind quote from Pema Chödrön carries the specific, inner-peace-beginning truth about the moment the peace of mind becomes most directly available from the choosing rather than the happening: the inner peace begins the moment the choosing not to allow the other person or event to control the emotional life is most specifically made from the inside of the moment the choosing is most specifically available. The peace of mind is not the waiting for the person or the event to change. It is the specific, available, moment-of-choosing the not-allowing that the inner peace begins from. Choose not to allow. The inner peace begins from the choosing that is most specifically and most immediately available from the inside of the moment the Chödrön quote most directly names as the beginning.
5. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. — Hermann Hesse
This peace of mind quote from Hermann Hesse carries the specific, strength-redefining truth about the relationship between the holding on and the letting go that the peace of mind most directly grows from the honest redefining of: the holding on was most specifically assumed to be the strength. The letting go was most specifically assumed to be the weakness. The Hesse quote most directly reverses the assumption from the honest assessment of what the holding and the letting are most specifically requiring from the inside: the holding can be the anxiety in the grip’s clothing. The letting go can be the genuine strength of the releasing. The peace of mind is most directly available from the letting go that the strength-redefining most specifically enables from the honest reversal the Hesse quote most directly provides.
6. The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. — Steve Maraboli
This second peace of mind quote from Steve Maraboli carries the specific, today-beginning truth about the relationship between the letting go of the yesterday and the beginning of the today’s beautiful journey that the peace of mind is most directly available from the today’s-beginning that the yesterday’s-letting-go most specifically enables: the today’s beautiful journey cannot most specifically begin while the yesterday is still being carried from the holding that was most specifically preventing the today from being most directly and most fully inhabited. Let go of the yesterday. The today’s beautiful journey begins from the letting go that was most specifically enabling it from the yesterday most gracefully and most honestly released.
7. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao Tzu
“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. The today’s beautiful journey cannot most specifically begin while the yesterday is still being carried from the holding that was most specifically preventing the today from being most directly and most fully inhabited. Let go of the yesterday. The today’s beautiful journey begins from the letting go.”
This peace of mind quote from Lao Tzu carries the specific, becoming-enabling truth about the relationship between the letting go of the current self-definition and the becoming of the more-possible self that the peace of mind and the personal growth are most directly available from the releasing of: the letting go of what I am is the releasing of the fixed self-definition that was most specifically limiting the becoming of what I might be. The peace of mind is most directly available from the releasing of the fixed self-definition. The becoming of what I might be is most directly available from the same releasing. Let go of what you are most currently and most tightly defined as. The what-you-might-be is most specifically available from the letting go the Lao Tzu quote most directly names as the becoming’s most essential condition.
8. Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. — Wayne Dyer
This peace of mind quote from Wayne Dyer carries the specific, retraining-required truth about the relationship between the peace and the processing of the life as it is rather than as the should-be was most specifically requiring it to be before the peace was most specifically available from the is that the should-be was most specifically preventing the peace from being most directly available from. The peace is not the waiting for the life to become the should-be. It is the specific, practiced, mind-retraining of the processing of the life as it is from the is-available-now position rather than the should-be-available-when position that the Wayne Dyer quote most directly and most practically names as the peace’s most specific source. Retrain the mind. Process the life as it is. The peace is most directly available from the is-processing the retraining most specifically enables.
9. Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude. — Martin Luther King Jr.
This peace of mind quote from Martin Luther King Jr. carries the specific, attitude-requiring truth about the forgiveness that is most essentially part of the letting go with grace: the forgiveness is not the one-time act that most specifically and most completely resolves the thing being forgiven in the single generous moment. It is the constant attitude that is most specifically practiced from the ongoing position of the person who has most honestly chosen the forgiveness as the most available alternative to the holding that was most specifically costing the peace the constant attitude of the forgiveness was most directly making available. Practice the constant attitude of the forgiveness. The peace of mind is most directly available from the constant-attitude forgiveness that the occasional-act interpretation was most specifically underestimating as the requirement of the letting go with grace.
10. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. — Guy Finley
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude. The peace of mind is most directly available from the constant-attitude forgiveness that the occasional-act interpretation was most specifically underestimating as the requirement of the letting go with grace that the constant-attitude most specifically enables from the ongoing choosing of the forgiveness over the holding.”
This peace of mind quote from Guy Finley carries the specific, permission-granting truth about the availability of the letting go and the starting over from the inside of the position that was most specifically feeling the unavailability of the letting go and the starting over from the holding that was most specifically producing the feeling: nothing in the universe can stop the letting go and the starting over. The letting go is always available. The starting over is always available. The peace of mind is most directly available from the always-available letting go and starting over that the nothing-can-stop most directly names as the most unconditionally available alternative to the holding that was most specifically producing the peace-preventing position the letting go was always most specifically available from.
11. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down. — Toni Morrison
This peace of mind quote from Toni Morrison carries the specific, weight-releasing, flying-enabling truth about the relationship between the giving up of the weight and the flying that the peace of mind is most directly available from the releasing of: the flying requires the giving up of what weighs down. The peace of mind is the flying. The giving up of what weighs down is the letting go. The weight most specifically preventing the flying is the thing most specifically being held with the grip that was most specifically preventing the peace-of-mind flying the letting go was most directly making available from the releasing of the weight the Morrison quote most directly and most beautifully names as the giving-up-to-fly that the peace of mind most essentially requires from the weight most honestly identified and most gracefully released.
12. The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
This peace of mind quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti carries the specific, self-knowledge-clarity truth about the relationship between the knowing of the self and the clarity that the letting go with grace most directly requires from the self-knowledge that most specifically reveals what is being held, why it is being held, and what the holding is most specifically costing from the self-knowledge that the peace of mind is most directly available from the clarity of. Know the self. The clarity grows from the knowing. The letting go with grace grows from the clarity. The peace of mind grows from the letting go that the clarity of the self-knowledge most directly enables from the knowing that the Krishnamurti quote names as having no end from the self most honestly and most specifically attended to.
13. Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. — Unknown
This peace of mind quote closes the list with the one that most directly names the peace of mind that the letting go with grace most essentially produces from the honest, present, calm-in-the-heart position rather than the noise-and-trouble-free alternative that the peace-as-absence model was most specifically requiring before the peace was most specifically available: the peace is not the absence of the noise, the trouble, and the hard work. It is the being calm in the heart in the midst of all those things. The letting go with grace produces the calm in the heart from the midst of the noise, the trouble, and the hard work. The peace of mind is most directly available from the calm in the heart the letting go was most specifically producing from the inside of the midst rather than the waiting for the outside-the-midst that the peace-as-absence model was most specifically requiring before the peace was considered most specifically available.
How Amara and Kezia Each Found the Peace of Mind Quote That Most Directly Helped Them Let Go With the Grace the Holding Was Most Specifically Preventing
Amara had been in the specific holding-on position most common in the person who is most specifically holding the thing that the holding was most specifically costing the peace of the releasing was most directly making available from the not-yet-released position. The peace of mind quote that most directly helped her let go with grace was the Pema Chödrön one: inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotional life. The reorientation from the waiting-for-the-other-person-or-event-to-change to the choosing-not-to-allow-the-control most directly and most specifically changed the peace of mind from the condition of the other person’s or event’s change to the available practice of the not-allowing that was most specifically and most immediately available from the moment of the choosing rather than the moment of the other person’s or event’s most specifically waited-for change. The inner peace began from the choosing. The choosing was available from the moment the quote named it as the beginning. The peace of mind arrived from the choosing that was most directly and most immediately available from the inside of the moment the Chödrön quote most specifically named as the beginning of the inner peace from the choosing rather than the waiting the holding had been most specifically producing.
Kezia’s peace of mind quote was the Toni Morrison one: if you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down. She had been in the specific holding-on position most common in the person who was most specifically aware of the weight of the holding and most specifically unclear about the letting go as the flying-enabling alternative that the Morrison quote most directly named from the flying-weight-relationship that the quote was most specifically and most beautifully illuminating from the inside of the weighted position the flying was most specifically waiting behind the giving-up-of-the-weight for. The naming of the giving-up as the flying-enabling most directly and most specifically changed the relationship to the letting go from the loss-interpretation the holding was most specifically producing to the flying-enabling the Morrison quote was most directly naming as the available alternative from the giving-up of the weight the flying required. The weight was given up. The flying was the peace of mind most directly available from the giving-up that the Morrison quote most specifically and most beautifully named as the letting-go-with-grace that the peace-of-mind flying most directly required from the weight most gracefully and most honestly released.
The Peace of Mind These 13 Quotes Are Most Directly Producing Is the Specific, Practiced, Honest Peace of the Releasing: the Peace Most Directly Available From the Graceful Letting Go of the Thing Being Held Too Tightly for the Peace the Releasing Was Most Essentially Making Available From the Holding That Was Most Specifically Costing It.
Letting go with grace through the peace of mind quotes is built from the specific, honest, releasing-illuminating truths that these thirteen quotes most directly provide: the realization-that-it-is-over that Maraboli names, the control-is-only-of-yourself that Reber names, the hands-still-full-of-yesterday’s-junk that Smith names, the inner-peace-begins-from-the-choosing that Chödrön names, the letting-go-as-sometimes-the-strength that Hesse names, the yesterday-released-for-today’s-journey that Maraboli names again, the becoming-what-you-might-be from the letting-go-of-what-you-are that Lao Tzu names, the life-as-it-is-processed-rather-than-as-it-should-be that Dyer names, the constant-attitude-of-forgiveness that King names, the nothing-can-stop-the-letting-go that Finley names, the giving-up-what-weighs-to-fly that Morrison names, the self-knowledge-clarity that Krishnamurti names, and the calm-in-the-heart-in-the-midst that the final quote most directly names. These thirteen peace of mind quotes are the honest, compassionate, letting-go-with-grace companions for the person most specifically in the holding that the grace of the releasing was most directly illuminating from the inside of the holding these quotes are most honestly and most gracefully addressing.
Find the one or two peace of mind quotes from this list that most specifically illuminate what is currently being held too tightly for the peace the releasing was most essentially making available. Sit with them from the honest inside of the holding. Let the right words accompany the grace of the releasing. The peace of mind is most specifically available from the letting go the grace most directly enables from the illumination the right quote most specifically provides.
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