Quotes About Letting go

So stop worrying about the past. The past is for ghosts. We've all done things that we regret. It's what's ahead of us that counts.

You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have.

You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you don't move on.

And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who wrong. At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without even knowing it.

The past cannot be changed by worry or guilt; therefore, both are useless. - Celeste Talbot

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." ~Emmanuel

Please release me let me go, For I don't love you anymore. To live a lie would bring us pain, so release me and let me love again.

there is nothing to be gained by dwelling on what is past, or worrying about what may or may not come to pass. All we have is this moment right in front of us. It is precious, and the more you stay present, the more peace you will feel in your heart.

He who seeks revenge should first dig two graves.

And there's a lot I need to let go of. But it's so much easier playing a game than living a life.

change begins with freedom from the past.

The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

We have got to let loose sometimes, rather than indulging intractably in self-harm or self-mistreatment, by pursuing impervious dreams. ( « Les choses avaient enfin perdu leur pesanteur » )

I know she was special to you, but remember what Yellowfang said to me when I couldn't stop thinking about Silverstream: Put your energy into today. Stop worrying about the past. (Cinderpelt)

I can forgive you, Bella, he thought. But I can't forget.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Nobody know when he is going to die. It is no good simply putting it off all the time, as we tend to do. If you face it, you realize you hold your life in your hands, and you're ready to let go at any moment. I think that is real wisdom.

When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future.

What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

One's self is ever a tenuous thing, discovered only in relinquishment.