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Quotes About Letting go

Just because you miss someone, it doesn't mean you should go back to them. Sometimes you have to just keep missing them until you wake up one morning, and realize that you don't anymore.
~ Unknown
The more you try to forget someone. The more you start to think about them. The more you think about someone. The more you get attached to them.
~ Unknown
As much as we may miss someone and want them back in our lives, we must accept they were apart of our past and can't be apart of our future.
~ Unknown
If you start to miss me Remember, I didn't walk away You let me go...
~ Unknown
I can't take back what was never mine, I can't remember what I didn't experience, and that's why I cannot move on because nothing ever started.
~ Unknown
It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
I do hope the things I've forgotten don't matter.
~ Mary E. Pearson
If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere." "That's where I am, Rafe. Nowhere.
~ Mary E. Pearson
She was a natural leader. This was where she needed to be. Letting her go had been the right choice, even if the decision still burned in my gut.
~ Mary E. Pearson
White There was a moment in the darkness when the fear lifted. A moment where white surrounded me. Hope. Lily, and someone else, and a sprinkling of water. "Holy water, Jenna." "You can let go if you need to." "Forgiveness, Jenna." But I couldn't let go. It wasn't in my power. I was already swirling, flying, falling. To someplace deep I didn't understand. Where all the sounds buy my own voice disappeared. Only me. For so long. I don't want to be alone anymore. (120)
~ Mary E. Pearson
I looked at her, unsure how to answer. Even after everything Mikael had done, every day I had to let go again. He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. It was a conscious effort.
~ Mary E. Pearson
If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere,
~ Mary E. Pearson
The relief of giving in to destruction.
~ Mary Jo Bang
Don't look over your shoulder. The past is past. Just try to get through it, and give yourself some grace.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.
~ Mary Manin Morrissey
Hands are unbearably beautiful. They hold on to things. They let things go.
~ Mary Ruefle
Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.
~ Masaaki Hatsumi
One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and then let the universe run as it will. This will save us both a lot of energy and a lot of worry. Another
~ Massimo Pigliucci
De qué sirve volver a los sufrimientos pasados y ser infeliz porque tiempo atrás lo fuimos?
~ Massimo Pigliucci
Existen dos cosas que es menester cortar: el temor a lo futuro y la memoria de las molestias pasadas: éstas ya no me atañen, aquél aún no.»
~ Massimo Pigliucci
Olvídate de tus problemas de mecánica, así les quitarás importancia. ¡Sé imprudente y sobre todo, entrégate sin reservas!
~ Mathias Malzieu
Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
~ Unknown
The weak hold onto grudges; the great hold onto love.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo