Quotes About Letting go

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. My mother didn't love me. So what. My husband won't ball me. So what. I'm a success but I'm still alone. So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say 'so what'. That's one of my favorite things to say.

And let me tell you - carrying sad memories will wear you out. You've got to put them down walk away. Do whatever you must to put emotional space between yourself and your past. That's the only way you're going to make it through.

She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn't forget?

Why couldn't it belong to him anymore? Why couldn't he belong to it? Because he gave it up. He held on to himself, and he threw the other things away.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

There are going to be some things in life that you can't change.

You are exaggerating, Sunny. You don't know a thing about him. He is still a stranger. You may never see him again. Get over it.

stewing about something in the past you can't do anything about anyway.

Stoicism doesn't mean repressing emotion and shunning pleasure, I learned, but—in essence—focusing on what is in our power and letting go of everything we can't control.

What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

I loved Eddie. You know that, Stan. He'll be enshrined in my heart until I draw my last breath. But he can't be enshrined in my life. I've got to let go and move on. So do you.

Somehow Messies have a hard time coming to the realization that some jobs we must do are unpleasant and tiring. It is difficult for us to accept that giving away stuff will hurt us, but that it is okay to be hurt. Optimistically, like children, we feel that if a job is hard, we really can't be expected to do it.

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

their heart grew cold they let their wings down

Those who try to grasp on to the mystery will never succeed. Only those who let it slip their fingers will come to know it, and hear its secrets

I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

Actually, it's not so much that I've forgotten. It's more like I've stopped keeping track.

This is the last time, the girl thought, that she would remember these things. If they floated back to her again, she would paddle away. When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.