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Quotes About Letting go

I moved on from Emily," he said. "Gray didn't. And I know in my soul that if he had, he could have loved you. He would have.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The trick of being abandoned was never to let yourself long for anyone who left
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
You love fairy tales, I know, but I can't be your happily-ever-after. We can't stay here in our little castle forever.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Positive ones go on the wall, negative on the floor over there. He points to this heap of paper. It's important to get those down but they don't need to stick around after you do
~ Jennifer Niven
By the time I started eating- really eating- the loss was already so big it felt like I was carrying around the world. So carrying around the weight wasn't any heavier. It was trying to carry around both that got to be too much. Which is why sometimes you have to set some of it down. You can't carry all of it forever.
~ Jennifer Niven
There was a time when I'd hoped… But it would never have done. I was an old fool ever to think of it, and it's better this way.
~ Ellis Peters
Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat
~ Emily Dickinson
This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –
~ Emily Dickinson
The past is not a package one can lay away.
~ Emily Dickinson
Renunciation--is a piercing Virtue-- The letting go A Presence--for an Expectation
~ Emily Dickinson
I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.
~ Emily Giffin
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.
~ Emily Giffin
did I ever stop loving him the way you're supposed to stop loving everyone but the one you're with?
~ Emily Giffin
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.
~ Emily Giffin
let those surface issues go, to value content over form.
~ Emily Giffin
We spend most of our lives holding on to objects, he thought, and finally they fall from our cold dead hands and those who tidy up after us have to worry of what to do with all this stuff.
~ Emma Donoghue
Hãy v?t ngay Ä'i cái gì không ph?i c?a ta. Hãy thanh l?c các ý ki?n c?a b?n ?? cái gì không thuá»™c v? b?n s? không bám l?y b?n, ??ng có dính vào Ä'ó và cÅ©ng ??ng Ä'au kh? khi ng??i ta tước b? c?a b?n cái th? không thuá»™c v? b?n Ä'ó.
~ Epictete
Never say about anything, I have lost it, but only I have given it back.
~ Epictetus
The wise person knows it is fruitless to project hopes and fears on the future. This only leads to forming melodramatic representations in your mind and wasting time.
~ Epictetus
Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that I've given it back.
~ Epictetus
And the way to be free is to let go of anything that is not within your control.
~ Epictetus
Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.
~ Epictetus
Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, "I have lost it" and instead say, "It has been returned to where it came from.
~ Epictetus
Do not say of anything "I have lost it," but rather, "I have given it back.
~ Epictetus