Quotes About Letting go

Because, let's face it—no matter how much you tell yourself you're over someone, your heart knows the truth.

I think the question is, can you live without her? Watch her fall in love with someone else?.....If the fear of some random thing happening in the future is bigger than the reality of her being with another guy, walk away now when it'll merely sort of kill you to do it. But you can't have this doubt between you. Man up. Love her the way she deserves it, or let another man do it.

She doesn't get mad enough. She holds it in and lets it eat away at her heart. Puts everyone and everything else first. If she's mad, she can let go of whatever the fuck it is she's been pretending away.

Bygones are gone. That's not right, is it?

But i can't let you go," he said. "How could I let you go? I searched my heart"—he shrugged— "and I love you.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

There's no room in a small town for grudges.

The magickian lets go of his or her anticipation of the realization of his or her intention, so that he or she can get out of magick's way, and let his or her Future Reality do the Work.

For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no questions, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Spend passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!

I'm learning that I have to practice forgiveness, and sometimes it feels as if I have to do it moment by moment. Whenever the trigger gets pulled or the cloud of shame descends, I'm learning to see it as an invitation to forgive. My negative reaction means I'm aware of my lack of releasing my grudge or pain against them. It also means I can learn to let go of the hurts they caused.

forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everything she'd never told him. Whether she thought he'd failed her, or whether she wanted him to let her go. This, more than anything, makes him feel that she is gone.

This is it, Marilyn told herself. Let it go. This is what you have. Accept it.

They would make a pact: to let the past drift away, to stop asking questions, to look forward from them on, never back.

The same place people went when they died, where everything went: on, away, out of your life.

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

Eventually we must give up trying to be something special.

In order to establish a real teacher-student relationship it is necessary for us to give up all our preconceptions regarding that relationship and the condition of opening and surrender. Surrender means opening oneself completely, trying to get beyond fascination and expectation.

We need only drop the effort to secure and solidify ourselves and the awakened state is present. But we soon realize that just "letting go" is only possible for short periods. We need some discipline to bring us to "letting be." We must walk a spiritual path. Ego must wear itself out like an old shoe, journeying from suffering to liberation.

It is important to see that the main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego.

AT THIS POINT we may have come to the conclusion that we should drop the whole game of spiritual materialism; that is, we should give up trying to defend and improve ourselves. We may have glimpsed that our struggle is futile and may wish to surrender, to completely abandon our efforts to defend ourselves. But how many of us could actually do this? It is not as simple and easy as we might think. To what degree could we really let go and be open? At what point would we become defensive?

That is one definition of the setting-sun mentality: trying to conquer the earth so that you can ward off reality

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground."