Quotes About Letting go

As I rebuild my life, I remind myself not to relive the past.

The past is past. There is no point in repeating what you did in the past.

You get to a stage where you replay every scenario in your head, but you have to stop; otherwise, you drive yourself insane.

When you hang on a little too long, you disappoint your fans, and deep, deep down inside, you're disappointing yourself, and that's the part that hurts you the most.

When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

Once you get it in your head you're finished with something, to go back, it hurts.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

I don't believe in harbouring ill feelings about anyone.

I have no ill will about anything.

I don't like to hold grudges, I don't like to talk ill of people.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

I know that I have raised my sons to be big, strong, independent men who love God, themselves and care for others. I have to learn to let them have space and learn without me.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

Je moet niet teruggaan naar plaatsen van vroeger. Dan vernietig je die gloed, de kern van je herinneringen.

Bear no malice for the ones who leave you.

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and died.