Quotes About Letting go

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

Regrets are the monsters under the bed.

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

I'm almost sad for them. How they can't adjust to the fact that things have changed. That it's not going to be like it was. Just because you have something, just because you hold on tight, doesn't mean it will last. Sometimes you can only watch helplessly as it slips from your grasp. You say good-bye before your ready. You may even refuse to say good-bye at all. Still, it slips away

I'm tired of caring about people who end up leaving me.

Your past can only hurt you if you allow it into your present and your future.

The amazing, whole, overwhelming, abundant life is found, oddly, by letting go. By living a dangerous faith--the kind of faith that believes in a God who knows our hearts and loves us enough to take our breath away.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving… It's for yourself. It's hat you do to be set free.

Instead of telling yourself you can't have the happy ending, why don't you let go of all your dreams—and your fears—and let God show you how it ends. He's the master of happy endings—let him figure it out." She

She needs you to be bigger than her fears. Stronger than her rejection. And yes, if you truly believe that she doesn't want you in her life, then you have to let her go, But a woman who opens her heart up wants to know she will be protected.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

have learned this is her way of coming to terms with events she cannot control. We all have to find a way to do that, don't we?

But it also seemed that every time I shared Edward's story with someone, his hold on me diminished a little. And I didn't want him to disappear from me; I had so little of him to hold on to.

You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away. I

love and fear can sometimes feel the same, but each will lead a person to take different actions. When a decision h as to be made, fear usually motivates me to choose what is best for me, whereas love motivates me to choose what is best for another person. Fear urges me to hang on, white knuckled, to what is mine, while love can actually lead me to let go.... when you hold something you love tightly to your chest for fear of losing it, you actually risk crushing it against you.

You cannot undo the past but wishing it undone.

Not all relationships should or can be saved. Overthinking your relationship does nothing but tear you down, push you toward isolation, and increase the likelihood that you will make unwise decisions about it.

Now I was also trying to understand how someone could end such intense desire without leaving a trace. If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger? A couple of houseplants? A dinky Home Depot Phalaenopsis in a coffee can? I personally have always found giving up on something a thousand times harder than getting it started, but evidently Laroche's finishes were downright and absolute, and what's more, he also shut off any chance of amends.

I am happy if I can give them away or donate them. But I can't throw a book in the trash, no matter how hard I try.

Meditating with a goal or in order to accomplish something is not giving the practice a fair shake.Instead let yourself off the self-improvement treadmill, and simply be with yourself in your natural state. The practice isn't about achieving something. It's about letting go.

The bad news is, you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there is no ground. Chögyam Trungpa