Quotes About Letting go

Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over their love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

I wanted to say, 'Your face has been taken by another, so I've forgotten the malice in your eyes and the bitterness of your mouth.

You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy. It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

Sometimes in life, it doesn't hurt to avoid over thinking things. Be like a leaf sometimes, and let the wind guide you. Refuse to be drawn into deep, negative thoughts that are sure to deter you.

TEN BREAKUP COMMANDMENTS: 1. Move out 2. You cannot be friends 3. Do not process this break-up together 4. Do not bad mouth your ex to other people 5. Get rid of anything that reminds of him 6. Start and exercise regimen 7. Pursue an interest you could not have pursued while you and your ex were together 8. Take a vacation 9. Embrace Change 10. Go on a date

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

What do the dead need?" "Prayers, tea, and a little bit of whiskey." then seventeen-year-old Rebekkah answered, "They need nourishment." "Memories, Love, Letting go," Maylene added.

the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

It was raining outside. The little drops fell on the rooftops, on the streets … maybe also on the mountains….drops of water hung from clotheslines and played tag and sometimes one of them would fall and before it fell it would S T R E T C H and S T R E T C H because you could see it was hard for it to let go. It had been raining for a week…and the clouds were so swollen they were right on the roof tops.

This is the thing about being a parent," she said. "Do a good job, and your kids feel like they can take on the entire world, and sometimes that involves a world that's not anywhere near you. Do a lousy job, and they cling to your skirt and suck their thumbs—which is not so attractive in an adult person—but you do get to see them. Like all the time. You've got to let go, Annie." "I've

If you've done the best you can-if you have done what you had to do -there is no use worrying about it because nothing can change it .........and you have to be fresh for the next day. What you're going to do is more important than what you have done.

A vida só sucede quando deixamos de a entender.

Roscoe's dead. I loved him, but he's gone now. Besides, if I was the one who croaked, I'd want him to be happy.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

preparing yourself means letting go of the past and embracing the imperatives of the new situation to give yourself a running start.

As a man with cut hair, he did not identity the rhythm of three strands, the whispers of coming and going, of twisting and tying and blending, of catching and of letting go, of braiding.

As a man with cut hair, he did not identify the rhythm of three strands, the whispers of coming and going, of twisting and tying and blending, of catching and of letting go, of braiding.

This loss of self was precisely what Knight experienced in the forest. In public, one always wears a social mask, a presentation to the world. Even when you're alone and look in a mirror, you're acting, which is one reason Knight never kept a mirror in his camp. He let go of all artifice; he became no one and everyone.

The simple rule of thumb is, if they don't inspire you to be a better person and to live with integrity, honesty, openness, and courage, then let them go.

Recovering alcoholics have an expression: "If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today." With all that's happened, it's been liberating to understand that I don't have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that.