Quotes About Letting go

let the story go, and still clutched F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise in my arms as if to let it go would

I don't hold on grudges, you know. They're like expired milk in the fridge.

I learned the hard way that you can't spend your whole life facing the wrong way. You'll never see what's ahead of you if all you ever see are ghosts of your past.

I let my voice trail off, unable to explain that the biggest grudge I held was against my younger self, the girl I'd been trying to bury for almost a decade.

We are born to fight the bends and curves of our own rivers, pushing back that which will not give, understanding where we are meant to be only when we let go and let the river take us back tot he place where we began.

You came and you will be gone. You don't even have to do something for it, it happens by itself. You came by itself and you will be gone by itself. So, what do you worry about?

She herself had told him that you can never hold onto anything. The harder you try, the more precious things slip through your fingers. The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied—and hold onto them. Like the fine furniture her husband had carved for her, seemingly centuries ago.

The first is about forgiveness. It is never done well in little bits and dabs. Do it all at once and never look back, or do not do it at all.

What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.

Sometimes you can't put the pieces back together, even if you get them picked up

You Can't Lose Something You Never Had

All you have to do is forgive.

I'm pretty good at walking away from things—probably too good, in fact.

I wonder if I'll ever forgive Evandar? I wonder even more if I should bother," Aderyn said. "Of course you should," Nevyn said wearily, "but for your own sake, not his. Hatred binds a man to what he hates, and I think me you need to be free of him.

Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. —MALACHY MCCOURT

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Don't push the river, it flows by itself

The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

As for his friends, he no longer had any. One after another they had all dropped away, as though friendship had become a burden which he had at first made every effort to shoulder and then had gradually realised that there was no need for and let go, and it had gone.

all my past spread out laid bare I trample on it what else to do

Now what mattered to me no longer matters.

If ever we two had a soul, let our soul —keep on walking and leave us behind.