Quotes About Letting go

You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both.

If something really gave me immense happiness, I will remember it for the rest of my life in vivid detail. But if something bothered me, or I regretted it deeply, I will move ahead from it and forget.

I still vividly remember the moment I let go of an embrace with my daughter on her college campus - that, in her opinion, probably lasted far too long. I left the most precious thing in my life in the care of an institution, and that's a very hard thing to do.

I'm the kind of person with a short-term memory. I like to let things go, to let them get back to normal.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it's not something I love. You have to let things go that are not for you.

If you try to hold on to something you don't have anymore, you can't be happy in the moment.

There's no use beating yourself up about what you can't change.

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

I'm not a guy who believes in revenge.

I try and take it for what it is, and I'm very at peace with the fact that when I'm done with the songs, they don't belong to me anymore. They belong to the listeners.

No existe nada como "yo", "mí" o "lo mío" a lo que aferrarse.

Nothing is to be clung to as 'I,' 'me,' or 'mine.

Si realmente muriésemos, todas nuestras responsabilidades y obligaciones desaparecerían de inmediato. Lo que quedara de ellas se resolvería de algún modo sin nosotros.

Weak people hold grudges, Mom. Strong people forgive.

Our strengths are not our own until they are freed of the burden of having to heal the past.

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

It's hard to say goodbye to the place you've lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars. I released the insects onto the street. And the reptiles. And the mice. I told them, Go. All of you. Go. And they went. And they didn't come back