“… when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free. To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.”

“And when you're with yourself, oh don't let it go to your head. ~ "Carlos (Don't Let It Go To Your Head)”

Pete Yorn (1974) American musician

“What did you expect? I don't know why we're so surprised. When you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what's he going to do? He's going to knock your block off.”

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)

“Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?”

Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer

“Just like a feeling that you're sending out,
I pick it up.
But I can't let you go.
If I let you go,
You slip into the fog…”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.”

John Burdett (1951) British crime novelist

“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”

Stephen King book Joyland

“Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.”

Caroline Myss (1952) author from the United States

“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.”

Ajahn Chah (1918–1992) thai Buddhist monk