Quotes About Letting go

I've decided it's important to love the life you get and somehow learn to let go of the life you dreamed of.

just walked away.

Every day is a new day and you've got to just go with the flow. Accepting yourself as you are and letting go of what society says you should be are first steps toward freeing yourself. "Free your hair and the rest will follow

Where does love go? When something you have taped on the wall falls off, what has happened to the stickum? It has relaxed. It has accumulated an assortment of hairs and fuzzies. It has said Fuck it and given up. It doesn't go anywhere special, it's just gone. Energy is created, and then it is destroyed. So much for the laws of physics. So much for chemistry. So much for not so much.

Unless you have a life of great importance, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

believe, it is the height of love to—to release a loved one.

Every morning is a beginning, a fresh start, and a man needn't be hog-tied to the past. Whatever went before, a man's life can begin now, today.

I agree not to expect anything

I'll let my castle go

The present was enough, though my work in the cemetery told me every day what happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough: it becomes your entire history.

crear es no llorar más lo perdido que se sabe irrecuperable».

Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.

Oh well. Better out than in

towards Irma, seemingly burning or giving away every last item that had belonged to him?

I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

When you find out you can live without it, go along not thinking about it.

Since my adolescence I have read two and sometimes three newspapers a day, frequently clipping an article that for obscure and soon forgotten reasons attracts me. I usually toss the clippings into a desk drawer, and later, often years later, I'll find myself reading through the clippings, throwing most of them out. It fills me with a strange sadness, a kind of grief for my lost self, as if I were reading and throwing out old diaries.

I was thinking about what she aid about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you can't hold on to water, I still gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away

You can't hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.

I was still thinking about what she said about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you cannot hold on to water, still I gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away.

I should only make myself ridiculous in my own eyes if I clung to life and hugged it when it has no more to offer.

Maketa," I said, throwing myself down in the sand. "I lost. The ocean won." She smiled. "Was it a good feeling?" "Mm," I said. "That's good," she said. "Have another rice ball?