Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships.

Music. It’s not about those things. It’s about a feeling. It’s about expressing yourself. It’s about letting go.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having.

This is the difference time createsWe bleed our misbehaviorAnd in silent prayer, repentIt is only necessary that we fall away againInto love

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way.

This is a story about survival.Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life.The things left unsaid...

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it."[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.]

I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.