Quotes About Letting go

Tess preferred people from her past to stay in the past. Ex-boyfriends, old school friends, past colleagues--really, what was the point of them? Life moves on. Tess quite enjoyed reminiscing ABOUT people she once knew, not WITH them.

She would have happily never seen Troy Delaney ever again, or even returned to Australia. The wounds had healed nicely, no visible scars, and she'd found a new life, a new love, so she could once again watch romantic comedies without scoffing.

I'm falling even more in love with you letting go of all i've held onto standing here untill you make me move just hanging by a moment here with you I'm living for the only thing i know I'm running and not quite sure where to go and I don't know what i'm diving into just hanging by a moment here with you

When them Niggas Left Eye[I] It Got A Lil Bit Chilli[TLC], But I Just Let It Burn[Usher] Like The End Of A Philly.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

I'll miss them when they take flight. I won't be there. Their fast excited chatter, their wings finally spread wide, their feet tucking in behind them. Wheels up. I'll miss it. I'll be in class or at my desk or in bed when they cut across the sky.

It's not here anymore," he said. "What?" "What happened." "Then where is it?" "It's gone. It's over. You can't find it, stroke it, coo over it. Time has stolen it away like it fucking steals everything. In rare instances, like yours, that can be a good thing.

I've read that the dying often wait to be by themselves. They need the freedom to go, with nobody holding them back.

You've been a cop long enough to know that sometimes bad things happen to good people. It's out of your control. You gotta let go or it will drive you nuts.

It's our "helping God out" that leads to an anxious heart. When we take over and try to control what happens, we take our focus off the One who is in control and put our eyes on our circumstances.

Take the proverb to thy soul! Take and clasp it fast: "The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed." —Sarah Doudney

the truth don't always set you free, forgiveness do!

take a deep breath. Keep your body fully in the present and your mind in the recent future. Don't let the past get in your way.

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure's all you've known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go

I want to let all this go when it still hurts to let it go. When we can still feel a sense of loss. When what we're losing is still whole, and not corrupted, and diminished, and made dreadfully sad.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

Few moments in life spark more maturation than when a young person recognizes that her parents have strengths and limitations that were in place long before she came along and that will be there long after she moves out. In letting go of the dream of turning you into the perfect parent, your daughter recovers a lot of energy that has been devoted to being angry with you, feeling hurt by you, or trying to change you.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that's the way of the world.

You know, how you get to forty and you suddenly stop giving a shit about all the stupid things you worried about your whole life.

Some people there's no getting over.

I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.

I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.

As far as people saying, 'Do you miss Van Halen?' or any of that kind of stuff, I've totally moved on.

I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.