Quotes About Letting go

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it's so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…

maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through...

An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be.

Don't hate anyone," Beata said quietly. "It's too much work. And it only poisons you.

You're always doing too much or too little for them, not there when they want you to be, or too present and driving them insane. You have to let them

You just do the best you can and love them a lot, no matter what." And let them go when it was time, which was the hardest of all.

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

all mothers have to learn that—to let go of their children.  It always hurts, and then you reach that point where you have to let go of yourself, too.  Let go of yourself as a mother. That part is a surprise

The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing. So that I'm letting go of the pain means I'm also letting go of the love.

I can stop wasting the dwindling minutes of the only life I'll ever have obsessing over past events I can't do anything about, and future events that might never happen. I can teach myself to focus on the only time that matters, which is this moment right now, and use this precious time to appreciate, to cherish, the people I love.

It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she could part with her, she could give her back to the world.

I made sure I let go of my past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life.

I made sure I let go of the past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life. I knew black hole was out there, waiting to suck me in and forever control my destiny--but only if I let it. I took positive control over my life. I'm so blessed. The challenges of the past made me immensely strong inside.

If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.

I made sure I let go of my past, accepting the fact that that part of my life was only a small fraction of my life. I knew the black hole was out there, waiting to suck me in and forever control my destiny—but only if I let it. I took positive control over my life.

Things sometimes did not work out. Even if you wanted them to more than anything else. You couldn't will someone to love you back. You had to move on.

And you, you're afraid to let go of your relationship and be lived by the Great One for real. If you want my gut feeling, it's time for you and the Peepster to trust deeper than the form of your relationship. Let go of each other

A man must be prepared to give 100 percent to his purpose, fulfill his karma or dissolve it, and then let go of that specific form of living. He must be capable of not knowing what to do with his life, entering a period of unknowingness and waiting for a vision or a new purpose to emerge. These cycles of strong specific action followed by periods of not knowing what the heel is going on are natural for a man who is shedding layers of karma in his relaxation into truth.

If you can't do something about a situation, there's no point in worrying about it.

almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. (on the wall of a bedroom at a recovery house for alcoholics and drug addicts)

Everything I've ever let go of had claw marks on it.

He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away.

The 2-Man seniorest males' bedroom has a bunch of old AA bumper-stickers on it and a calligraphic poster saying EVERYTHING I'VE EVER LET GO OF HAS CLAW MARKS ON IT, and the answer to Gately's knock is a moan