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Quotes About Letting go

They say, "If you have true love, let it go and it will come back." I don't think so. True love is like a cupcake, it should be enjoyed immediately.
~ Unknown
Le plus difficile à admettre, c'est la certitude qu'on oubliera.
~ Virginie Despentes
The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.
~ Unknown
But of course the instant I try to make myself relax, true relaxation vanishes, and in its place is a strange phenomenon called "trying to relax." Relaxation happens only when allowed, not as a result of "trying" or "making.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Again focus your attention on the can; then let the serve serve itself.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
We would rather die in dread/ Than climb the cross of the moment/ And let our illusions die.
~ W.H. Auden
How much must be forgotten out of love, How much must be forgiven, even love.
~ W.H. Auden
I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.
~ Sara Teasdale
The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
~ Ram Dass
Have courage to let go of the matter which doesn't matter!
~ Unknown
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
~ Eva Jessye
It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.
~ Lenore Skenazy
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
~ Bodhidharma
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.
~ Lili St. Crow, Jealousy
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
~ Eric Roth
Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.
~ Philip Kapleau
I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.
~ Larry Kramer
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
~ Kurt Vonnegut
3) Take a vacation from your grievances. (4) The regularity of it isn't totally worthless.
~ Philip Roth
We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.
~ Philip Yancey
Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten
~ Philip Yancey