Quotes About Letting go

No olvidé a Hanna, desde luego, pero en algún momento su recuerdo dejó de acompañarme a todas partes. Quedó atrás, como queda atrás una ciudad cuando el tren sigue su marcha. Está allí, en algún lugar de nuestra espalda, y si hace falta puede uno coger otro tren e ir a asegurarse de que la ciudad todavía sigue allí. Pero ¿para qué hacer tal cosa?

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

A woman raises her bairns, and then no matter how much she loves them, she must let them go on to live their own lives.

Forgivness is not just for the offender. It is also for the one who is offended. If we do not forgive, we end up in perpetual anger and bitterness and eventually offend others with our words or actions. If we forgive, we experience a letting go or cleansing process that frees us from the offender.

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

My past was so amazing. It's that fine line of appreciating it and letting it go. I have my animal rescue, and I have my daughter and my family that helped me move forward.

I don't resent anything.

If you are filled with resentment, try letting that feeling come and then let that feeling go.

I don't live with judgement or resentment, I don't have time for it.

I just don't harbor resentment toward anything or anywhere or anyone - I'm too busy.

I always tell myself that nothing ever is worth holding onto if it hurt you, because the longer you hold onto anger and resentment, the longer you feed it and keep it alive.

If I try to be fast then I'm no good, so it's better just to shut everything off and let instinct take over.

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.

I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

To bicker over what could have been is silly.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

Break any ties—good or bad, emotional or spiritual—with any former relationships. You can't move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.

Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

You can't go back to something once it's dead.

Sometimes when you try too hard," Aqamdax explained, "things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go.