Quotes About Letting go

Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Daily life took as much as she had. The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens-- that letting go-- you let go because you can.

If you want to fly, you have to give up everything that weighs you down.

Lay em down, Sethe. Sword and shield. Down. Down. Lay both of em down. Don't study war no more. Lay all that mess down. Sword and shield.

Here is the secret to your life as a kingdom woman of excellence: a short memory coupled with a clear direction. If you are going to live in excellence, you have to forget yesterday. Whether it was good, bad, or ugly, if it's yesterday, you need to let it go. When you carry yesterday further than you ought to, you ruin today. If you ruin today, then you spoil tomorrow.

When we overcome emotional strongholds, we let go of our need to understand everything right now. We trust God to make a miracle out of what looks like a mess.

For the first time in her life Mariah knew the benefit, the balm of not keeping blistering memories padlocked in her mind.

It is not easy to let someone go, even when they have said unforgivable things to you.

Nothing should be worth more to you than its value in helping you live your life. If you are willing to slough off the past, even at a loss, you are keeping yourself free, and your world continues to grow. If you insist on holding to some abstract valuation, you are being held hostage by that possession, and you are trapped in a prison of your own devising.

Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past.

Maybe I'm once again.../ ...Tryin' to throw away something.../ ...Irreplaceable that I'll never have again?/ To be honest.../ ...As long as I can feel warm.../ ...Isn't that good enough?/ Am I trying to let go.../ ...Of an irreplaceable today for some vague tomorrow I might never find... If it even exists...?/ Even without some big, exaggerated dream.../ ...People go on living.

If you spend too much time focused on the dead or broken, you'll find death perched on your shoulder...

I don't want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I'm not healed, but for this moment, I'm better.

They say that drowning is an easy death, once you stop trying to breathe.

We're going to let go of the balloons now!" said Daisy Dawn, and Mia bleated like a sheep. "Baaaa.

The only difference now, for what it's worth, is that I know that these things don't matter. I know that I don't have to know anything, and I know that I don't have to fell frightened of not knowing-I just have to be here

this is what i know it doesn't hurt any more this is

Sometimes we simply can't let go because we are so habituated to our fears, resentments, and grief.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Every year I own less of what I use. Possession

When we don't forgive, we trap ourselves in spiritual prisons.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

feeling the world flatten out. I started to care less about the future. I cared more about making the present tolerable. And time passed.