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Quotes About Letting go

She told me that she loved me. She told me that everything would be okay. She told me to let go
~ so I did.
In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on.
~ Taylor Patton
Maybe I hold on for too long, but maybe you don't hold on for long enough?
~ Dominic Riccitello
Love grants us the power to forgive, to love when we're hurt, but it also gives us the courage to let go, and the understanding that to love, we love freely—at our own choice.
~ J.C. Reed, The Lover's Game
We may only ever have one great, passionate love, but sometimes it's best to leave that kind of love in the past. A love like that can't last forever.
~ Cassia Leo, The Way We Fall
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To be flexible is to be able to respond to change without inappropriate attachments binding one to the past. A clinging to the past in the face of new and changing circumstances is itself a product of insecurity, a lack of self-trust. Rigidity is what animals sometimes manifest when they are frightened: they freeze.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Flexibility. To be flexible is to be able to respond to change without inappropriate attachments binding one to the past.
~ Nathaniel Branden
happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release...
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Let us not look back, the past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I still can't figure out if it's bravery or cowardice to take your own life. I can't figure out whether it's being selfish, or selfless. It is the ultimate act of letting go of oneself, or a cheap act of self-possession? People say a failed attempt is a cry for help. I guess that's true if the person meant it to be unsuccessful. But then, I guess most failed attempts aren't entirely sincere, because, let's face it, if you want to off yourself, there are plenty of ways to make sure it works.
~ Neal Shusterman
We want what you no longer want.
~ Neal Shusterman
Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while, Alyssa says. Then she adds, Yesterday, too.
~ Neal Shusterman
He put the ring away, and Rowan let out his breath, not even realizing he had been holding it.
~ Neal Shusterman
I guess once you start parting with all the things you think hold your life together, it's hard to stop—and then you find out your life holds together all by itself.
~ Neal Shusterman
Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while. Yesterday too.
~ Neal Shusterman
Rowan let out his breath, not even realizing he had been holding it.
~ Neal Shusterman
Let the dead be dead," agreed Rowan.
~ Neal Shusterman
the worst thing, he told me, is bitterness, people end up so bitter.
~ Charles Bukowski
what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care.
~ Charles Bukowski
I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.
~ Charles Bukowski
Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It's awful. Goodnight.
~ Charles Bukowski
it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
~ Charles Bukowski
you've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.
~ Charles Bukowski