Quotes About Letting go

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

I'm not really a vengeful person.

Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb.

Now I think of no one anymore. I don't even bother looking for words. It flows in me, more or less quickly. I fix nothing, I let it go. Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up: I forget them almost immediately.

I'm going to bed. I'm cured, and I'm going to give up writing down my impressions, like a little girl, in a nice new notebook.

Doakes was gone. One small piece at a time he was leaving my life and releasing me from the involuntary servitude of Rita's couch. I could live again.

If you're going to get by in life, you're going to have to learn to give up the dead.

Never waste time on anger.

Never seek the wind in the field—it is useless to try and find what is gone." Your

Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.

The less you get attached to your preferences, the less they will become your source of stress.

Imagine speaking to this person in words like: "For any hurt or harm you have caused me, intentional or unintentional, I offer forgiveness.

By releasing my past resentments, I may be able to protect myself more, to relate to that person in a healthier way, and to have more compassion for what drives them to act as they do.

Kabat-Zinn responded, "There is no purpose in meditation. As soon as you assign a purpose to meditation, you've made it just another activity to try to get someplace or reach some goal" (128).

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Holding on to my bad feelings about this is doing nothing but harming me, and everyone else, and preventing me from enjoying my life fully. I am an awesome person. I choose to enjoy my life. I choose to let this go.

Surrendering is the free-falling backwards into the unknown and trusting that The Universe will catch you.

Don't cry over anything that can't cry over you

You can't get your arms to stop making circles in the air if you never say good-bye.

If she married a man, she could let him plan, let him push, let him maneuver; and the world they inhabited would welcome them. They would always have a place. It would be easy, and Jo was so tired.

she married a man, she could let him plan, let him push, let him maneuver; and the world they inhabited would welcome them. They would always have a place. It would be easy, and Jo was so tired.