Quotes About Letting go

The only reason I have lived so long is that I let go of my past. Shut the door on grief on regret on remorse. If I let them in, just one self-indulgent crack, whap, the door will fling open gales of pain ripping through my heart blinding my eyes with shame breaking cups and bottles knocking down jars shattering windows stumbling bloody on spilled sugar and broken glass terrified gagging until with a final shudder and sob I shut the heavy door. Pick up the pieces one more time.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

Haven't you had enough past to let the future go?

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you....forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

What became of all those lost balloons: they were the loves that slipped out of our fists; the blank eyes that rose in every night sky.

But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

This wasn't the first time he'd be saving her by letting her go.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. —CHINESE PROVERB

I didn't cry when she got on the plane. She lived with me for four years, and when she walked away, I didn't feel much of anything at all

It does not matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.

But he was giving her back her heart, so that when he left her life, there would be no strings attached.

And I thought—not for the first time—that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive.

don't ever recover from losing someone you love—even the ones you leave behind because you're better off without them.

No matter how many times you let someone go, it never got any easier.

You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

I felt this boy whose name I couldn't be bothered to remember grunting and heaving inside me; I was that empty and that far away. And suddenly I knew what became of all those lost balloons: they were the loves that slipped out of our fists; the blank eyes that rose in every night sky.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. I'm moving on to peace and happiness.

That's the thing about being obsessed with the past. It keeps you from having to notice the present.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a strangehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future

The same things that trip you up as a human will tie you in knots as a spirit, if you don't let go and let God. Speaking of God, He's real and He's there, too. And don't ask what He looks like because you wouldn't understand even if I told you. There's just some things none of us are supposed to know, until it's our time.

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.