Quotes About Letting go

I think giving up people is a difficult thing.

I've gotten a lot of good advice from my parents. Probably the best advice I've ever gotten from my mom is 'Let it go.'

I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young??now you are even younger.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

And as far as wishing goes, I save my wishes for things that can still come true. There's no point in wasting them on the past.

Some things in life you just have to erase. If you're going to go on with your existence, you have to drop them into a deep dark well somewhere in your soul, and trudge onward as if they never happened.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

When you stop searching, wanting and wishing things - only then they start appearing.

I see no point in holding grudges. I'd rather not have any negativity within me.

One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of color give us feedback. We have to build our stamina to just be humble and bear witness to the pain we've caused.

I woke up one day, and for some reason all the hate and anger was gone.

Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.

Get mad, then get over it.

Things won't get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

I used to think, 'Oh, I can fix him. I can be his therapist. I can be what he needs.' But what I've learned is that you can't take ownership for how they're feeling, no matter how badly you want to.

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.

My skin got thicker. I don't listen to stuff from outside or even if I hear or if I read something, I just let it go very easily.