Quotes About Letting go

True surrender is giving up an old way for a new way.

To stay married, you need a fair amount of ignorance. Selective forgetting is what makes close proximity possible. It's what we forget about someone that lets us find some peace, some happiness.

To cling to the past is hypocrisy, because no one knows those moments.

Face it: you're never going to get carded again, so quit asking bouncers if they want to see your ID. Quit going places where they have bouncers.

More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit.

Forgetting takes practice…You have to work at it.

The whole thing was so intense, so full of hurt that when I look back at it I squint. I want it forgotten.

I was so jealous it burned, and I knew I had to let it alone or I'd break something inside me.

Toi qui veux la paix, tu ne peux la trouver que par le pardon complet.

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.

I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

No es difícil soltar nuestros derechos; finalmente, son cosas externas a nosotros, ligadas a nuestra relación con la sociedad. Lo difícil es soltarnos a nosotros mismos.

The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.

Getting rid of you is a good thing, that's why I don't write you back I'm vomiting every memory from my system

I'm not going to bother with you anymore I don't need all the extra thought I got enough right now as it is Not going to wait for your phone calls Not going to think about you And what it would be like it were different It's not different It's like this

There are no birds in last year's nest

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.