Quotes About Letting go

Holding on to things will only break your heart.

Holding on things will only break your heart

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

wonder if this is what dying is like, Annabelle. At first, you are so tightly connected to the world you cannot imagine letting go. In time, you surrender to a drifting phase. What comes next, I cannot say. Some would say that you meet the Lord.

that holding on to things "will only break your heart." So he avoided attachments

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives

Holding anger is a poison.

He cut his hair. Like Samson pulling the pillars down around him, Frankie crumbled all the things he'd become attached to in an effort to be free of them.

When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this? He made a fist. Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, 'The whole world is mine.' But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson. What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. We can take nothing with us.

I just gritted my teeth, took out a needle, and worked him out of my heart like a splinter.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long.

We all appear to ourselves frustrated in our old age...because we cling to everything so much. But in reality we are still fulfilling our lives.

This spiritual journey also involves leaving something behind. It involves letting go, trusting that what we love will somehow be okay without our being there. Pilgrimage from the very beginning, and of its very nature, involves surrender—surrender to a power beyond ourselves, a power we trust in, a power we are both leaving behind to care for those we love and that at the same time is drawing us away from them to another place that will help us better relate and love.

Not even God can change the past.

I remember too much. But don't worry, Don Sombra. People like me have an infinite ability to forgive themselves.

I can't change the past so why does it still bother me? -Malledy

Go straight to God, and dump it right at His feet. You go down with it if you have to. Then leave it there and go on and do what you know is right now . That other is done. It doesn't make you who you are. It just teaches you who to be.

Remember what I've told you," he said. "Don't count on emotional realizations. Let your assemblage point move first, then years later have the realization.

He explained that the leaf had fallen over and over from that same tree so I would stop trying to understand.

We all give up great expectations along the way.

Sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

Baje a la orilla y me senté en la arena, donde años atrás había esparcido las cenizas de Marina. La misma luz de aquel día encendió el cielo y sentí su presencia, intensa. Comprendí que ya no podía ni quería huir más. Había vuelto a casa.

but in good time you'll see that what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.