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Quotes About Letting go

You earthlings! You never know what you want. If you'd stop trying to hold on to everything, you'd be a lot happier.
~ Bruce Coville
L)ittle is debated with greater ferocity than the question of what the creator owes the creation. Some feel you must hover over it, guarding it every moment. Others believe the highest, hardest, and most important task is to let go. They say that just as the parent must at some point release the child to the world, the creator must release the creation. Otherwise you stop it in its tracks, strangle its growth. Then you become not only its creator, but its executioner.
~ Bruce Coville
You know why it's hard to be happy—it's because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn 'em all away. But they're not punishing you,' he said. 'They're freeing your soul. If your frightened of dying, and your holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.
~ Bruce Joel Rubin
ou can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.
~ Bryce Courtenay
and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
~ Bukowski C.
Zašto juriti po tragovima onoga što je ve? završeno? Majstor i Margarita
~ Bulgakov
I don't know what's best for me or you or the world. I don't try to impose my will on you or on anyone else. I don't want to change you or improve you or convert you or help you or heal you. I just welcome things as they come and go. That's true love. The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.
~ Byron Katie
Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.
~ Byron Katie
You can argue with reality all you want, or you can stop arguing long enough to understand it and be free.
~ Byron Katie
Problems can exist only in a past or future.
~ Byron Katie
El sufrimiento es una alarma natural que nos alerta de que nos estamos apegando a un pensamiento; cuando no escuchamos, llegamos a aceptar ese sufrimiento como una parte inevitable de la vida, pero no lo es.
~ Byron Katie
And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?
~ Candace Bushnell
Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.
~ Terence Conran
sometimes there was nothing you could do to save people; sometimes you just had to let go of them.
~ Terry Brooks
He had never come back to anything. The past was never his concern.
~ Terry Brooks
No one likes letting go of what they have always believed, even when they know it's right to do so.
~ Terry Brooks
It was a waste of time to wish that things had happened differently.
~ Terry Brooks
Don't try to fix the past, dear one—it can't be done.
~ Terry Goodkind
I love her too much to keep her from leaving
~ Terry Goodkind
It is clear to me right this minute that regret is just a wasted emotion.
~ Terry McMillan
A GRUDGE IS A HEAVY THING TO CARRY.
~ Terry McMillan
When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.
~ Terry Pratchett
AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON! which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this.
~ Terry Pratchett