Quotes About Letting go

Guilt is for losers. Guilt is for folks who have stupid things like regrets. I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags of them in the attic. Is accumulated baggage what makes people get old? If so, they need to clean out their fecking attics, send the stuff to consignment shops and remember how to walk around naked like kids, little bellies sticking out, always ready for a good laugh.

One must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

People waste so much time mulling over things they've done when all the mulling in the world neither undoes nor changes one iota of what you did. The only thing that alters the unsatisfying state in which you've left things is future action. Either never see the person again, or see them and do something to set the record straight.

It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

His smile was chillingly predatory, carnal and possessive. "Do you really think I brought you this far to be letting you go, Chloe-lass?

Once you walked away, you had to keep walking and never look back.

one must break with one's past to embrace one's future.

when you can't forgive

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

worrying about something you could do nothing about was useless;

Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.

Sometimes you don't get closure, you just move on.

You know you're in a good place when you no longer are interested in looking back. You prefer to enjoy the journey.

Let go of your worries. Hold on to this moment.

It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen

Don't let the darkness of your past block the light of joy in your present. What happened is done. Stop giving time to things that no longer exist when there is so much joy to be found in the here and now.

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes.

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

The Dalai Lama said, "If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise — you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing your clothes." Finally we can let go of all responsibility for making things happen and acknowledge that we lived life as a gift. It has meaning.

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.

But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.