Quotes About Letting go

The night before I left on the sealed bullet train, I reread my old diary, and then I knew what the Gardeners meant when they said, Be careful what you write. There were my own words from the time when I was so happy, except that now it was torture to read them. I took the diary down the street and around the corner and shoved it into a garboil dumpster. It would turn into oil and then all those red hearts I'd drawn would go up in smoke, but at least they would be useful along the way.

Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

B?rak?yorum, aks?n gözyaÅŸlar?m. Olan bu, aÄŸlama deÄŸil. Bir sandalyede oturup bir sünger gibi su s?zd?r?yorum.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

I've felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I've had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn't be bothered about things that didn't matter, things I could part with easily and not miss, like good manners and--well, things like that. I've been too afraid my boat would be swamped and so I've dumped overboard the things that seemed least important.

What is broken is broken—and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli insieme e dire a me stesso che l'oggetto riappiccicato vale quanto quello nuovo. Quello che è rotto è rotto... e preferisco ricordarmelo quando era in buono stato piuttosto che aggiustarlo e e vedere le tracce della rottura finchè vivo.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

Over time you realize that some people just aren't worth it anymore.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

When love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away; hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.

It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Pause and remember - When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it truly is, not what you want it to be, you are then free to move forward.

If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.