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Quotes About Letting go

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I tell you what you'll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.
~ Anne Sexton
Be picky about what you stick to. Persevere in the things that matter, that bring you happiness, and that move you toward your goals. Quit everything else, to free up those resources so you can pursue your goals and stop sticking to things that slow you down.
~ Annie Duke
The endowment effect has obvious applications to quitting behavior. Selling something you own is the equivalent of quitting; you are quitting your ownership. Not selling something you own is a form of persistence. When you are deciding whether to sell your wine, or your car, or your house, you are choosing whether or not to persist in owning those things.
~ Annie Duke
Teller realizes that when you're building pedestals, you are also accumulating sunk costs that make it hard to quit even as you find out that you may not be able to train the monkey to juggle those torches.
~ Annie Duke
'Rocky' is an incredibly human story, and 'Creed' is very inspired by the Rocky lore, but there's something kind of profound in letting it all go. This is the first time I'm co-writing, and I'm learning as I go. This process is so different from 'Fruitvale'; hopefully it gets made.
~ Ryan Coogler
There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.
~ Brody Jenner
Çekinme, hat?rlama ne kadar çok sevdiÄŸini ve nas?l doÄŸurduÄŸunu çocuklar?n?. Bugün, sadece bugün unut, sonra tutars?n yaslar?n?. ÖldürmüÅŸ de olsan çok sevmiÅŸtin onlar? ve mutsuz bir kad?ns?n ÅŸimdi.
~ Euripides
Do not revive a grief I had forgotten.
~ Euripides
Forgotten is forgiven.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
to have and to hold, and, in time - let go
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wouldn't ask too much of her, I ventured. You can't change the past. Can't change the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can!
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn't, isn't.
~ Fannie Flagg
she reached fifty-nine, she felt Tanner's arm relax and loosen his possessive hold.
~ Fern Michaels
Afinal, se coisas boas se vão é para que coisas melhores possam vir. Esqueça o passado, desapego é o segredo!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Desapegar-se, é renovar votos de esperança de si mesmo, É dar-se uma nova oportunidade de construir uma nova história melhor. Liberte-se de tudo aquilo que não tem te feito bem, daquilo que já não tem nenhum valor, e siga, siga novos rumos, desvende novos mundos.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'M HELD by nothing, I hold on to nothing, I belong to nothing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
La renuncia es la liberación. No querer es poder.
~ Fernando Pessoa
You may not see me again,' he said, '- the way I am.' 'Any way I don't see you will be all right with me,' she said.
~ Flannery O'Connor
When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
~ Taylor Hackford
I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.
~ Angelina Jolie
For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.
~ Michelle Ryan
Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.
~ Alfonso Cuaron