Quotes About Letting go

Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed.

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing.

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Let the past drift away with the water.

Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.

May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and tomorrow.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

No blubbering over spilt wine.

Trusting the Buddha, good and bad, I bid farewell To the departing year.