Quotes About Letting go

One day you'll hear that song you both liked on the radio and it won't make you cry. You'll wake up one morning and they won't be the first thing you think about, or the last thing you think about when you're falling asleep at night. Their face won't be the one you see any more when you close your eyes, or in a crowd when you're walking down a street. And when something makes you laugh, or cry, they won't be the person you want to share it with.

But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is this minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

I want to fill my mind with life-enhancing, positive, beautiful memories. The dark experiences can remain buried without a funeral.

But know this, if you let me go, you'll regret it forever, because sometimes the gods run out of patience with fools and take back the gifts they've offered.

Like autumn leaves, bad days fell away as though the genius of the room could not retain them.

It is natural to worry about some things. Yet most of the things we worry about are things that will never happen or have already happened.

I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, that's a lot of food. That's a waste. No more. So I'm, like, letting it go so I have more food. My budget's good for food now.

I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time.

Regret is a waste of time and energy and doesn't do a thing for me.

I'm not going to waste time or energy spent on something I can't control.

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?

I think it's not controversial to say there's a lot of us who need to be reminded that we're wasting our time and making things worse for ourselves if we're carrying anger around with us all the time.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

Maybe to my own detriment, but I watched all of 'Fargo' probably more than once. And I tend to be a little critical of myself. But I can also let things go. So I can think, 'Well, that moment didn't read as well as I thought it would,' but it doesn't keep me up at night.

I think I've had a lot of experience with watching other people shepherd my ideas with the 'Saw' films. They made four 'Saw' movies without me. I never really had a protective or fierce policy towards that. I let it go.

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.

I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

The surfers' code is that you surf your wave and let the world discuss it as you move on to the next one.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.