Quotes About Letting go

The future is programmed in the present. To let the past go is to remember that in the present, my brother is innocent.

Cuando nos entregamos a Dios, nos desprendemos de nuestro apego a la forma en que suceden las cosas afuera y empezamos a preocuparnos más por lo que pasa en nuestro interior.

I surrender my attachment to lesser things.

True forgiveness is not a lack of discernment or the product of fuzzy thinking. It is a "selective remembering." We choose to remember the love we experienced, and to let go of the rest as the illusion it really was.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

That morning David realized that grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when every time you can Mr Lichtenstein. Apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change.

I free the universe from my efforts to control it.

How different my life will be if I let go, allowing the universe to do its dance without my constant interference. Today I release the thought that I know what is best—for myself, for the world, or for anyone in it. I relax into the patterns of a divinely orchestrated universe, asking only to be guided where I can best fit in and be used in service to love's will.

There's a profound satisfaction in finally giving up something meaningless, for no other reason than that we did it to the max and now we're ready to move on.

Si dejamos de aferrarnos al pasado, hacemos lugar para los milagros.

To the extent that I withdraw my attachment to what you did, I will no longer be affected by what you did. I have decided to put my faith elsewhere. That is the miracle of forgiveness.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

remembering and forgiving can be contrary things

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

remembering and forgiving can be contrary things. No doubt they usually are.

I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything.

Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.

la cosa ya no tiene remedio y debemos olvidarla.

What's past is past," Gronevelt said. "Never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is."  

No way, man. I got one rule as a driver." "What's that?" "Never look in da rearview mirror." "Never? We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab. "It's not healthy to keep a' watchin' what you leavin' behind.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.

Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection

Vergeben und vergessen. Langsam verstand sie, was das hieß. Man konnte nicht vergessen, bevor nicht jemand anderes einem vergab.