The Art of Letting Go Quotes

“The voice in your head matters. Make it your friend, not your enemy.”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“At its core, letting go is all about surrendering control and allowing yourself to move on from situations that may no longer serve your best interests.”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“Beliefs attachment is characterized by perfectionism, feeling attacked when others disagree, avoiding experiences that challenge one’s beliefs, refusing to consider alternatives, limiting oneself to like-minded relationships or environments, feeling intense anger when things happen outside of one’s beliefs, feeling the need to get others on one’s side, or holding on to stories of disempowerment.”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“most of us are honest with ourselves, we’ll discover that a lot of our distress and unhappiness in life comes from wrongly expecting others to do what we want them to do.”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“It allowed the young woman to feel proud for giving it her all regardless of whether things worked out—a key factor toward realizing true contentment within oneself rather than constantly striving after success alone as validation for one's worthiness as a human being.”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“Epictetus believed in the importance of using the three faculties of the mind wisely. Specifically, he outlined the "dichotomy of control," which highlights these faculties as essential to one’s well-being. The faculty of judgment governs the way people think, feel, and believe. The faculty of desire guides one's desires and fears. The faculty of will directs one’s intentions, decisions, and actions. Using these faculties in proper balance can allow people to live a fulfilling and virtuous life. Epictetus' teachings are a reminder that people have the power to shape their own experiences and must take responsibility for their thoughts and actions in order to live a happy and meaningful life.”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“growth paradoxically requires a kind of loss. Things that don’t change this way do not grow;”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“let's find a way to "do our life, our way" and embrace the wonderful quirks that make us who we are. After all, normal is just a setting on the washing machine.”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“psychological distance is all about creating mental space between yourself and the problem by looking at it objectively rather than emotionally.”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“The dichotomy of control is a central concept in Stoic philosophy that emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between things that are within one’s control and things that are beyond one’s control.”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom

“Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing; not within our power are our body, our property, reputation, office, and, in a word, whatever is not of our own doing.” —Epictetus”
― Nick Trenton, The Art of Letting Go: Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals, and Find Emotional Freedom