Quotes About Letting go

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

Why feel bad about what you couldn't change? Why not embrace it?

But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back — all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot's wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around — and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings?

It's best to be ruthless with the past. It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

What you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I pray for that sort of release.

If you let go and let God than you will never have to worry about God letting Go

Leave yesterday in yesterday. If yesterday cannot add value to YOUR today, then it has no place and serves no purpose.

We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.

No matter how much you revisit the past, there's nothing new to see.

The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy.

I've learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you can remember it, but it simply will not change!

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes.

Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.

One last song. One last turn. One last street. no matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you

Your hate is poison, Vincenzo. It eats you from the inside out. You must find it in your heart to let go. Then, and only then, will you find the peace you seek. Only then will you be forgiven.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

Do not be so attached to life otherwise you will end up struggling for life. Choice is yours.

El reproche y la culpa solo sirven para aprisionarnos y para no dejarnos avanzar.

When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don't believe in ghosts.

It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.