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Quotes About Letting go

Grieving and Mourning. As children being abused, and later as adults struggling to survive, most survivors haven't felt their losses. Grieving is a way to honor your pain, let go, and move into the present.
~ Unknown
Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Let some of the good writing go. Don't worry. There'll be lots of it over time. You can't use all of it. Be generous and allow some of it to lie fallow. What a relief! We can write well and let it go.
~ Natalie Goldberg
I cannot say why, but the simple act of reading it aloud allows you to let go of it. Do not forget this. Believe me, it helps. At first it is a very scary thing to do.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Write about "leaving." Approach it any way you want. Write about your divorce, leaving the house this morning, or a friend dying.
~ Natalie Goldberg
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Now the house is a museum of everything she can't let go
~ Natasha Trethewey
He gets hurt by the smallest touch. It'll be okay, as long as there will finally be a day. Eventually, one day. It will be good if all our burdens would finally be released. I really hope you can do it. I hope you two can both live happily.
~ Natsuki Takaya
And if when everything ends, nothing is left in my hands...that's alright.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Biarkan aku mati dalam pelukanmu dan jangan kausela aku.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
He did not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage. There was a willingness on his part to forget. Forgetting facilitates the generosity that springs from Christlike charity.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
El dolor de toda la vida de no conocer realmente a su padre estaba siendo tocado y liberado. Una vez que renunció a él y le ordenó partir, una avalancha de recuerdos maravillosos de su padre llenó su mente y corazón. Recibió una sensación de aprobación, afirmación y amor de su padre, seguida de una sensación de dejar ir a su padre y abrazar su destino. Dios Padre estaba revelándole su corazón a Kevin.
~ Unknown
All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
~ Ned Vizzini
Because, all too often, the things that we're the most resistant to are precisely what we need. And the things we're most scared to let go of are exactly the ones we most need to relinquish.
~ Neil Strauss
Forget the past.
~ Nelson Mandela
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.
~ Nelson Mandela
Resentment is a method of self harm. "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.
~ Nelson Mandela
We forgive but not forgotten
~ Nelson Mandela
Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.
~ Nelson Mandela
But as I got closer to the car that would take me away, I realized that when I went through that gate, if I still hated them, they would still have me. I wanted to be free. And so I let it go.
~ Nelson Mandela
O velho reapareceu, cinco minutos depois, já recuperado. Pigarreou: — Vamos pôr uma pedra em cima disso, que é mais negócio. O que passou passou. Está na hora de dormir, pessoal. Então
~ Nelson Rodrigues