Quotes About Letting go

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

Life's too short to be mad.

Wish I knew. Meeting you taught me to forgive myself. I don't need to hate. Not anymore.

I have found life to be too short to be preoccupied with pain from the past.

I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

Then one day, I just let it go, and started thinking about the essay as not trying to solve a riddle of why, but as a way of understanding what was changed by my fear, and what that change revealed about my experience of seventh grade.

Lâcher prise, et avoir conscience qu'il n'y a aucune limite à notre façon de voir le monde et la vie, c'est la magie.

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

Respect the past but focus on your new future if you decide to divorce!

I had no idea that throwing away worthless things could bring about such contentment and . . . well . . . joy. Maybe that's true in life too. Get rid of the worthless things that tied you down and held you back.

It hurts to set you free, but you'll never follow me.

It's great to have things as long as our things don't have us.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

We must not become morbidly fixated on our sins any more than we should become morbidly fixated on the death of a loved one. At some point, one must move on. But that point is not immediately after the sins have been committed or immediately after a loved one has died. There is a natural process that needs to take place.

Release the guilty person from your judgment. Do not keep rehearsing the offense in your mind. Let God be the Judge.

Someone left the cake out in the rain, and, I don't think that I can take it, 'Cause it took so long to bake it. And I'll never have that recipe again.

Who knows what's for true once a time is past? There's no way to prove how something was that's gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It's all rain into rivers now.

I want to be happy. To finally just let the past slip away into the night.

If you stick that anger behind you, one day you're going to turn around and find it's gone.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

Surrender to the things that can't be changed is one of the keys to peace of mind.

Psychiatrist and writer Jerry Jampolsky asks the question "Would you rather be happy or would you rather be right?" I've been working on choosing happiness for quite some time.