Quotes About Letting go

A slow smile curved over my face, and I leaned down over him. No, I said. Wishes are lies. Tell me you're going to leave. Tell me you're not going to stay. Tell me that it's only for a while so I can enjoy today, I whispered in his ear, as if saying it louder would break me. And when you go, don't think me cold when I don't cry. I can't cry anymore, Pierce. It hurts too much.

Possess nothing and be possessed by nothing. Put away what you have in your head, give what you have in your heart. Here a world and there a world, we are seated on the threshold.

it's obviously a kind of cover—a pretend principle that is really about keeping the rules that protect their property and privileges, and letting the rest go to hell.

When do you give up on someone you love?

Attachment is the root cause of suffering, dear child. This is well known to you. Fix yourself in that knowledge now and take heart.

People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

Memory is the art of forgetting.

Il guaio delle fantasticherie è che arriva sempre il momento in cui bisogna cancellarle. Ed è un gran brutto momento.

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become "holding on" instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Forgiveness has no deadline.

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

Anyone can say the love someone....It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love.

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don't matter anymore.