Quotes About Letting go

Some lives are not ours to hold on to; God makes His choices without us.

She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

There, beside the shifting fact of all that water. What's done is done.

I know, released, she won't come back. This is different from letting what, already, we count as lost go. It is nothing like that. Also, it is not like wanting to learn what losing a thing we love feels like, Oh yes: I love her.

Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself.

But the past, he concluded, was as dead as a smashed Victrola record. "Chasing yesterdays," said he, "is a bum show".

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

It was like some unseen force telling me you were it. Not to let you go. And every time I saw you with him Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I couldn't breathe.

then. It was like some unseen force telling me you were it. Not to let you go. And every time I saw you with him Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I couldn't breathe.

El secreto de la felicidad está en no insistir (Gregorio Martínez Sierra).

If I forget the bad, I have to forget the good, too. The memories are all I have now of my family. And I don't want to lose them.

For people with the growth mindset, the number one goal was forgiveness. As one woman said: "I'm no saint, but I knew for my own peace of mind that I had to forgive and forget. He hurt me but I had a whole life waiting for me and I'll be damned if I was going to live it in the past. One day I just said, 'Good luck to him and good luck to me.'

Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, pray, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, just let go, just be.

No matter how painful it is to let go of self-justification, the result teaches us something deeply important about ourselves and can bring the peace of insight and self-acceptance.

everything else fell away,

It's funny how things don't matter any more when it's too late.

It's about picking which baggage is worth carrying with you later, when you go into the real world, where people don't want to hear about body parts on the roads.

It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then

Sometimes, you just have to walk away and never look back.

Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.