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Quotes About Letting go

I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.
~ Delia Ephron
O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.
~ Gautama Buddha
Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.
~ Kevin DeYoung
I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.
~ Louise Hay
I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.
~ C. S. Lewis
I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.
~ A. J. Hawk
I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
~ Alice Sebold
Start leaving what you want to leave. Your future is waiting.
~ Danielle LaPorte
How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade.
~ Dennis Lehane
Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can
~ Elizabeth Scott
Then teach me how to not care about someone who was everything to me. All I want is to know she's okay. Is that too much to ask?
~ Ellen Hopkins
Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.
~ Frederick Lenz
He had told himself that it was an act of courage to let her go, to give her the final decision. Courage and sacrifice. He no longer believed that. There was no sacrifice made in being abandoned. There was no courage in doing nothing.
~ Steven Erikson
For all your fears, love is not something you can forget. But you can turn your back on it.
~ Steven Erikson
To fit into a new thing you had to leave the old thing behind, and that wasn't as easy as it sounded, since it meant accepting that the old thing was dead, for ever gone, no matter where you tried standing or how stubbornly you held fast.
~ Steven Erikson
If people are going to be taken away from him, either through death or a transformation of their personality that makes them into strangers, then he's better off without them.
~ Steven Galloway
What's the big deal—you've read it, haven't you?" Then he'd take them down to the used-book store and sell them for peanuts. He never got anything close to what they were worth. He didn't like them cluttering up the house, or even my room. They weren't going to get my books.
~ Steven Gould
Stop feeding your pain and it'll dissipate.
~ Steven James
If you don't find forgiveness, you'll never end up with peace,
~ Steven James
Life is for living, for moving on, for letting the past lie behind us.
~ Steven James