Quotes About Letting go

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go.

I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.

We raise our children to leave us. - Caramon Majere

También para los recuerdos es demasiado tarde. Ahora ya no les quiero. No sé si los quise. Los abandoné. Ya no guardo en mi mente el perfume de su piel ni en mis ojos el color de sus ojos. Ya no me acuerdo de la voz, salvo a veces la de la dulzura con la fatiga de la noche. Ya no oigo la risa, ni la risa ni los gritos. Se acabó, ya no lo recuerdo. [...] se ha convertido en escritura corriente.

Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.

Im sorry, I thought it would be better that way. Less painful, to just let it all fade away.

Call off the search for a "why", Rachel,' she finished on. 'You don't need it.

As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.

Like avocado refrigerators and outdated clothing, love becomes clutter—emotional clutter that takes up space better used for something else.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

Forgiveness is "selective remembering"—a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless—it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.

To surrender to God means to let go and just love.

Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment, the universe is responding not to your past but to the truth of who you are, always were, and always will be.

Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world's only real chance to begin again. A radical forgiveness is a complete letting go of the past, in any personal relationship, as well as in any collective drama.