Quotes About Letting go

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

I'll have got him out of my system." "I hope not." "Really?" "What would there be left of you, if you did?

I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you.

The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

Wat er op het eind van je overblijft zijn je bezittingen. Misschien is het me daarom nooit gelukt iets weg te gooien.

It's always best to look ahead and not backwards. Possessions are not important. Think of those beautiful porcelain pieces I had. Before they came to me, they had all passed through the hands of many people, surviving wars and natural disasters. I got them only because someone else lost them. While I had them, I enjoyed them; now some other people will enjoy them. Life itself is transitory. Possessions are not important.

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.

We must not confuse letting go of past injuries with feeling an obligation to let the injurers back into our life. The freedom of forgiveness often includes a firm boundary and loving distance from those who have harmed us. As my father likes to say, We can let them back into our hearts without ever letting them back into our house.

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

My religion is Get Over It.

Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.

You put something behind you, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going.

If you didn't let a man mean too much, you wouldn't be too hurt when he went away. But that didn't mean you had to stop living too. Even if you didn't jump off a cliff there were other ways to end life.

You put something behind you, Nome, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going.

When are you going to stop being annoyed

Solo espero que recuerdes que cuando un hombre se aferra con demasiada fuerza a algo, esto termina escapándosele entre los dedos- afirmo.

There's no point in hate, Sophie. It'll only damage you.

Powiedzia?a sobie, ?e teraz ju? zamyka ten rozdzia? i zostawia go tam, gdzie jego miejsce.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.