Quotes About Letting go

We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

No.' He spoke with a tenderness unexpected in him. 'No, lady, no. Put that clean out of your mind. That dear chap and his dog have gone, gone where the dear chaps do go, gone with a few I knew. You've got your own life and you go and live it and make a do of it, as no doubt he'd like you to. Now

Looking backward should never divert our path to one of hatred and bitterness, for those steps lead nowhere but to destruction. To live in hatred is to miss the point of living.

Forgiveness is letting go of the need to feel like a victim. Work on it. You'll lighten your load—the load of negativity you carry around.

It's all yours. Lock, stock, and cobwebs.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.

Anything I've ever tried to keep by force I've lost.

What happened in our house taught my brothers how to leave, how to walk down a sidewalk without looking back.

Blame keeps us stuck in the past. Responsibility paves the path for a better future.

Maybe is wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go.

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.