Quotes About Letting go

Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.

Vianne knew Rachel wasn't asking how to hide in the barn; she was asking how to live after a loss like this, how to pick up one child and let the other go, how to keep breathing after you whisper "good-bye." "I can't leave her.

Come," Sasha says again, kissing me, and I follow. I know that if I look back, I will see my body, old and withered, slumped on that bench in the snow, that if I wait, I will hear my daughters discover what has happened and begin to cry. So I do not look back. I hold on to my Sasha and kiss my lion's throat. I have waited so, so long for this, to see them again. To feel like this, and I know my girls will be okay now.

I love you. And if I have to let you go to make you happy, I'll do it.

Even if I could forgive him, how would I forget?

they'd learn what needed to be held close in life, and what wasn't worth worrying over.

apparently there was an expiration date on grief. It was like an exterior door closing; once it shut and you were in the dark, you were supposed to forget how much you missed the light

For me, admitting that I won't decorate a tree for Christmas is giving up, and I've never been good at letting go.

Some lives are not ours to hold on to;

again. If he could just fall out of love with her, what

folks who hang on to the past miss their chance for a future.

I knew on some level that he was right, but my anger toward my dad was like a badge of honor, something that united my mom and me. Letting it go would be like losing a piece of who I was.

There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.

Personal growth is all about reflecting and noticing the thoughts that simply don't serve my family or me. Past grudges, regrets, anger, resentment, fears, and other emotional baggage only hinder the happiness in my spirit and our home. In essence, it is a spring-cleaning of unhealthy attachments.

There should be a statute of limitations on unrequited love.

let go of what's gone, and be grateful for what still remains.

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

Can we leave the past behind us?" Could they? The question was everything. "That's an excellent place for the past," said Suheyla. "If you don't leave it there, it clutters everything up and you just keep tripping over it.

If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.

She wanted to climb out of her life as if it were a seashell she could abandon on the shore and walk away from, barefoot.

She'd thought that she would do anything for them, but it had never occurred to her that "anything" might mean letting them go.

Letting you go, Karou, will be like oenin the window for a butterfly. One does not hope for the butterfly's return." "I'm not a freaking butterfly.

Can we leave the past behind us?" she asked. Could they? The question was everything. "That's an excellent place for the past," said Suheyla. "If you don't leave it there, it clutters everything up and you just keep tripping over it.

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