Quotes About Letting go

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!

Rest requires us to give up any ideas about control: controlling our experiences, controlling our feelings and controlling how we rest. Rest is fundamentally effortless and detached from experience.

Easy to get loaded down with stuff—and stuff often holds you back from making important decisions.

Try to remember only the good now. The rest of it no longer serves you.

she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook…

But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.

Sometimes, he thought, one should take a long, hard look at old friends. Like old clothes in a cupboard, there comes the moment to examine for moth. Perhaps throw them out and forget them. Yes.

forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past.

He had said that forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past. We

sometimes, in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

The fact is that blaming doesn't get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.

And those you never forgive you find impossible to forget. — Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (McClelland & Stewart, 1997)

What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life...

You can fill no bag with regrets.

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

This ragged heart, she said, pulling at her kimono. I should rip it out and bury it for compost.

In stages, that's how. First you let go of the things you loved.

That was how you did it. You let go, you left all that behind, you refused to remember. You let the dark in.

But all the if onlys in the world could not change the events of that day, and he had accepted that long ago.

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.

We should learn not to hold grudges and be positive all the time because life is too short and unpredictable.

I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.

You have to take all the ups and downs that come your way like a pinch of salt. Just leave everything behind. Forgive and forget.

I can't stand confrontation, which maybe is a character flaw. But having said that, I do feel like when I do get upset - which is rare, as my husband and family would say - I have a hard time letting go.