Quotes About Letting go

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

Dwelling upon what once hurt you will only bring new surprises, new losses, more disappointments—new reasons to be hurt.

Forgiveness is only necessary when first there's blame.

In a way I couldn't believe I'd carried a torch for her this far - I should have used it to set fire to her years ago.

Our ability to surrender in life is directly related to the amount of peace and fulfillment we experience.

When they stepped out of the taxi and approached the hotel lobby, she mustered up the courage to take Nick's hand. He quickly let go, frowning at her. "I thought we were supposed to be married," she said, a little hurt. "We are. Five years, Elaine. No married couple holds hands after five years.

a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

that a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement

must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

but he wanted another chance to talk to him, to tell Noa that a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

It is possible that characters need to die for the author to make her moral point, for the author himself to regenerate by letting go of an ideal identity, or for the world to recognize the necessity of certain ideas and ideals to die.

Duty is inevitable, but we need not saddle ourselves with extra responsibilities. Keep life simple. Give up as much as possible.

I would always be earthbound; he hadn't robbed me of my ability to fly or to live forever. I appreciated nuns now, not the conscripted kind, but modern women who chose it. If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

But as the sun rose I crested the mountain of my self-pity and remembered I was always going to die at the end of this life anyway. What did it really matter if I spent it like this...as opposed to some other way? ...If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

It was still diving, it was still letting go of mammalian pride and embracing gravity.

But I knew jumping was like dying, I would have to let go of everything.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

She went boneless.

I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.

The paradox of healing is that it is both holding on and letting go.

Being alive requires of us a relationsip with the mysterious, life-long experience of letting go.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.