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Quotes About Letting go

Sometimes the biggest heartbreak of all is letting go of the time before you knew things could ever be broken.
~ Unknown
It was too easy. Letting go also meant other things, things people never discussed. There were restrictions; everything always had to be cathartic these days.
~ Meg Wolitzer
people could not get enough of what they'd lost, even if they no longer really wanted it.
~ Meg Wolitzer
If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.
~ Megan Hart
Some people live their entire life and never once feel how I felt every time he looked at me. So yes, this hurts. And yes, I feel as if I might die. But I won't. And somehow, I find a way to let it all go...just let it go. No regrets. No grief. It will always hurt a little, down deep in that secret place, but it's become a pain I can handle. Besides, if it didn't always hurt, just a little, it wouldn't mean as much.
~ Megan Hart
Let him go. Let one of them go. Knowing it and doing it, two separate accomplishments. Let one man go. The question had to be, which one?
~ Megan Hart
And I did," Alex said. "I let her go. Because I did love her, and I did want her to be happy." Hart, Megan (2015-03-01). Vanilla (Kindle Location 4400). MIRA. Kindle Edition.
~ Megan Hart
There is nothing crueler than the person who doesn't want you enough to keep you, but who doesn't love you enough to let you go.
~ Megan Hart
So you reach this moment where finally, finally, it all shifts, you find a way to open up your hands and let go. When what used to matter stops breaking you so fucking hard; when you accept that empty place in your heart will always be there because only one person can fill it, and you get up anyway because goddamn it, one person who does not love you enough should never make you incapable of moving forward.
~ Megan Hart
I wanted to be angry with him, but since my love for him had burned to ash, I couldn't find anything to mold into fury.
~ Megan Hart
Some things never left you, no matter how much you wanted them to.
~ Megan Hart
Sometimes you love someone who can't give you what you want, so what can you do but love them enough to let them go?
~ Megan Hart
I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.
~ Megan McCafferty
The more you can let go of the sadness, the more room there will be for light.
~ Megan Shull
For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
John F. Kennedy says: 'Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.' I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don't leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can't fix everything in life; you must leave some things unfixed to move forward! Do not feel bad about this, because you have no time to fix everything! Leave the unfixed there and move forward!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
~ Meister Eckhart
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.
~ Meister Eckhart
The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth.
~ Meister Eckhart
Maybe memories should be left the way they are.
~ Melina Marchetta
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.
~ Melina Marchetta