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Quotes About Letting go

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
~ William Feather
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
~ William H. Walton
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
~ William Hazlitt
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
~ William Hazlitt
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds
~ William James
I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.
~ William Joyce
He knew there was no magic to wipe clean the slate of memory. You just learned how to move on.
~ William Kent Krueger
Not forget. Accept. We do what we can, and then we let go and accept that the hand of Kitchimanidoo, the Great Mystery, is at work in all things. In you, me, Mariah, this shining big water. And even in this Windigo, though we may not understand how this is so.
~ William Kent Krueger
How do you say goodbye when your heart is telling you how horribly wrong that would be? How do you let go when everything inside you is screaming to hold on?
~ William Kent Krueger
In a way, he was afraid that to let go of the grieving would be to let go of his father forever.
~ William Kent Krueger
Meloux closed his eyes, lifted his face to the sun, breathed deeply. "That is all of life," the old Mide said quietly. "What?" Stephen asked. "Letting go of the questions. Letting go of the fear that there will be no answers." "Will there be answers?" "What we believe we want is like knocking on a closed door. Better to open ourselves to what we have and what we know. The beauty of this moment.
~ William Kent Krueger
But I'd come to a time when I couldn't deal with these broken things anymore. There were too many of them. I couldn't fix them. I didn't have the strength. I couldn't hold them in my mind. I didn't even want to know about them.
~ William Loizeaux
Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other.
~ William Matthews
Letting go is not for the purpose of forgetting or forgiving the past, it is about releasing the energy of the past to give us back our lives in the present which is necessary to deliver us into a new future" (Holloway 2002).
~ David Berceli
And what would you do if you lost a child? -I would think I was going to die, Elena said. But I wouldn't. I learned long ago that I must give up my child to the earth, to God, to the world, to death, to the possibility of death, to the possibility of disease, and in doing so I became at peace. Because I had let my child go. And in letting the child go, I became colder, more distant, and more at peace. But I still loved the child, don't be wrong. As you love your child. I am sorry.
~ David Bergen
We spend more time worrying about the problem than taking steps to solve it. Are you unable to sleep because you can't stop thinking about your problems? It's time to take that next big step. Put yourself in God's hands tonight and pray that He will lead you in the right direction. Then simply let go and trust Him, believing that you will sense God's direction and that He will bring you the peace you need.
~ David C. Cook
Sometimes when storms break out, a person must be willing to let go of the weights that hold him down.
~ David C. Cook
Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
~ David Copperfield
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
~ David Deida
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.
~ David Deida
Ongoing passion and growth in intimacy requires us to let go of our ideas of what we "should" be doing and instead trust the wisdom inherent in our unguarded heart and uninhibited body.
~ David Deida
You will loose everything" "I already have.
~ David Ebershoff
Not to let yourself go, what a strange expression. You're letting yourself go whatever happens. Life is about letting yourself go. That was all she wanted: to let herself go; or rather, to let go. To stop feeling the weight of each second.
~ David Foenkinos
L`essentiel, c`est que ces mots aient été écrits. Le reste n`a pas d`importance. Nous ne devons pas laisser de preuves aux chiens. Il faut ranger nos livres et nos souvenirs en nous.
~ David Foenkinos