Quotes About Letting go

There was nothing he could do about it, so there was no point worrying about it.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...

some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart...

you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...

My happiness is like this sand: I let it run out of my hand.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

What you are able to walk away from will determine what God can bring you to!

If you keep looking back, you'll keep walking into crap.

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end zone—rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.

She had spent much of the previous six months hating Mick for what had happened with Brigid—but hate was not the opposite of love. Indifference was the opposite of love, and for the first time, Ayers felt like she could take Mick or leave him. Tonight, she would leave him.

The trick is to surrender completely, take your moments when you get them, don't dare want for more.

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

You must live for the living, and not for the dead. Was it wrong to remember Alec with a smile because she had known and loved him, instead of with pain because she had lost him?

In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.

As if I took my little girl in my arms and held her tight and she's not a little girl anymore, and I still can't save her, can I? Because you can't. I can't save her from my mistakes. Any more than I could save Nell. But at least I can hold Leah's hand.

We learn to let go of our former selves, if we are to live in the world forever. Or we burn.

It wasn't healthy to live in the past or worse, to let the past live in your head forever. I'd save that kind of wallowing for special occasions.

Hating people doesn't accomplish anything except poisoning yourself. I should turn it off. I should let it go. The thing was, first I had to want to let it go.

Until everythingwas rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!And I let the fish go.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seemed filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster

He wanted to dig a hole and put the past inside it and cover it back up again. He didn't know if flowers would grow there or not. He hoped they would.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.