Quotes About Letting go

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Some people believe that holding on and hanging there are signs of strength, but there are times in life when it takes much more strength just to let go.

many people think that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. But there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go - and then to do it.

She wondered if dying was simply going to be an exercise in letting go of one thing after another.

Even though many of us are working very hard at it, we rarely, if ever, experience the joy and peace that are promised in the Bible. So what's the problem? Perhaps we are still holding the reins of our lives too tightly, afraid to surrender ourselves to God's Spirit.

there were sunsets every day, that we weren't meant to be coffined and buried whilst all the time still living, that nothing of the dark was so enormous that never could we surmount it, that always there were new chapters, that we must let go the old, open ourselves to symbolism, to the most unexpected of interpretations, that we must too, uncover what we've kept hidden, what we think we might have lost.

Then she'd stared at him with those radiant blue eyes and asked him to let he go. And bugger, bugger, bugger, he'd suddenly imagined he was sodding Sir Galahad.

Ich bin wie ein Drachen im Wind, wenn jemand die Schnur losläßt, pfff, fliege ich davon. Und du, das ist witzig, ich denke oft, dass du stark genug bist, um mich zu halten, und intelligent genug, um mich ziehen zu lassen.

Wie lange dauert es, bis man den Geruch desjenigen Vergißt, der einen geliebt hat? Und wann hört man selbst auf zu lieben?

Cik ilgam laikam j?paiet, l?dz aizmirstam t? cilv?ka smaržu, kurš m?s m?l?jis? Un kad paši p?rst?jam m?l?t?

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

There was no point in weeping for ever for things that you couldn't change, things you could not have. It had stood her in good stead all of her life

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly

It's never too late to forgive someone and let go of some hurt. Life is short. We only really have this very moment! To live it fully is a gift we give back to ourselves.

You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where do I put it down?

You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down? She shifted to a question about airports.

You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?

It is not the burdens and resentments we pick up that keep us derailed, but our continuing to tote them.

It was a task more than a burden. Once you have actually carried a dead man you are happy enough to leave him down, let them put the box into the damn ground.

Let go of the overwhelming desire to justify what you did and explain what they did.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Marietta is good for you, Gabriel. I quite like her. Don't be a fool and let her go." "I can do nothing but let her go, John. Sometimes love can only be given by setting someone free.