Quotes About Letting go

nada más que dejándome ir en el dejarse ir de las cosas, corriendo inmóvil con el tiempo. Y ya no soplaba viento.

Dac? am putea rupe trecutul ?i l-am arunca ca pe o ciorn? de scrisoare ori carte!

No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mi.

Todas las épocas se terminan y lo mejor es dejar que se desvanezcan en lugar de prolongarlas artificialmente en el tiempo como he visto hacer a muchos ignorando que la naturaleza de éste es precisamente su fugacidad.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

He needed to "kill his darlings"—Stephen King's favorite term for letting go of stuff that just doesn't work.

the way life will when we learn what to hold, what to let go

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

I already told you it's over, he snaps. What else do you want? A maldito corpse? You women never know how to leave things alone. You never know how to let go.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.

Sometimes, Carter told her, you got to let a garden tend itself.

But you can only hate somebody for so long." She

I can do that," I said. "Let me feel helpful." So I let go of the handle, knowing how immobilizing helplessness was.

How could you let the best thing that's happened to you go just like that?" "He was a good thing, Karin. A great thing. But not the best thing.

Albo niczego nie mo?na wybaczy?, albo nie ma nic do wybaczania.

A volte si deve semplicemente aver pazienza. Se una cosa non va, bisogna lasciarla perdere per un po'. Si dà così alla vita spazio perchè trovi da sola una via d'uscita.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.

Aneeka must learn to think of him as lost forever. It was possible to do this with someone you loved, Isma had learned that early on. But you could learn it only if there was a complete vacuum where the other person had been.

Live your life as a lonely stranger. As a wanderer filled with awe and wonder. Leave everything as you found it. For none of it belongs to you. Let the events happen around you, knowing that none of them are happening TO You. And you will live an equanimous life.

It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a best-seller but it's still my story, as I wrote it. The moment we or they make a movie, it's not my story anymore. There's a lot of letting go involved in the process.

A huge problem we face when we're in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.