Quotes About Letting go

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

What I know: when I met you, a blue rush began. I want you to know, I no longer hold you responsible.

Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by calamities.

But when I stood there and saw that the end of the journey was as vague and unreachable as the beginning had been, I realized I didn't care. No, more than that: I was relieved. I didn't want an ending, didn't want to get to the full stop of our story.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

I was thinking that there's no point living in the past. The future is the only thing that matters, and that it's what you make it.

Ao amor temos que ir já limpos, sem cobrar nem fazer pagar antigas dívidas, produto de anteriores equívocos.

Es difícil librarte de tu pasado.

You dream of a perfect love story, but you're too afraid to let yourself go.

And in love, it is easier to relinquish a feeling than to give up a habit.

Et en amour, il est plus facile de renoncer à un sentiment que de perdre une habitude.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

Against all attempts at programs and methods, the great art of holiness is to let oneself be.

The first stage of forgiveness is the decision not to try to inflict a reciprocal amount of pain on everyone who has caused hurt. When I forgive you, I give up the right to hurt you back.

The Harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

if you could accept yourself right now, and everyone and everything around you, as perfectly okay…if you could let go of the idea that there are things in the world and parts of yourself that you just can't accept…if you could stop resisting reality and surrender to the present moment as God's perfect creation…you'd immediately be able to relax, embrace life, open your heart, and smile at God's creation rather than hold it in judgment.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

I know it might be better for you to come out from under your might-have-beens, into the winds of the world.

They say a clean cut heals soonest. There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

Don't know. I'll have to think about it. They say a clean cut heals soonest. There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.