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Quotes About Letting go

Jesus, take the wheel Take it from my hands 'Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus, take the wheel
~ Carrie Underwood
I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side "I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly, Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye
~ Carrie Underwood
If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.
~ Cassandra Clare
He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.
~ George Herbert
The mill cannot grind with the water that's past.
~ George Herbert
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.
~ George Herbert
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose
~ George Lucas
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
~ George Lucas
Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
~ George Lucas
But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.
~ George McGovern
You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.
~ George R.R. Martin
But it did no good to brood on lost battles and roads not taken.
~ George R.R. Martin
I'm free of Tysha now, he thought. She's haunted me half my life, but I don't need her anymore, no more than I need Alayaya or Dancy or Marei, or the hundreds like them I've bedded with over the years. I have Shae now. Shae.
~ George R.R. Martin
Letting go of discouragement is no more difficult than holding on to it; and letting go is so much more empowering.
~ George Santayana
If you don't leave the past in the past, it will destroy your future. Look at what's in front of you, not what yesterday took away. The best is yet to come.
~ George Strait
Eroticism is the brink of the abyss. I'm leaning out over deranged horror (at this point my eyes roll back in my head). The abyss is the foundation of the possible. We're brought to the edge of the same abyss by uncontrolled laughter or ecstasy. From this comes a "questioning" of everything possible. This is the stage of rupture, of letting go of things, of looking forward to death.
~ Georges Bataille
I am beginning to see that I don't have to judge or interpret the motives and behaviors of others. There is no need to decide who are the good guys and who are the bad, who should be blamed and who punished. I find it truly is "safe" to surrender the script written by me and trust in God's script.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Love, then, is letting go of fear.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
see worry as a waste of time because, in actuality, worrying doesn't work!
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Spend as much time as you can before tomorrow ridding yourself of all the past, painful guilty, fearful thoughts and experiences you have had with your son.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Love is letting go of fear.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
~ Alexander Smith
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson