Quotes About Letting go

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

You told me to stay," July said. "I know I did, son," Augustus said. "I'm sure you wish you had. But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Go on with your digging and I'll tidy up.

The best to do with a death was to move on from it.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Reading has been very different for me ever since, much lighter, with less attachment.

It is unintelligent to try to hold on to things, to freeze them, when we can't.

Let go, gatito. Mourn and then move on. Your life is not over. Not by any means. So let the tears fall for the past and then we will speak of the future.

It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.

Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?

I'd want to remember how I had felt sitting here—to take it with me, this sense of relief I knew we were both feeling, the quietly growing momentum that eventually I'd understand comes from letting go of the things you were holding on too tightly to in the first place.

Gwyn looks up at her daughter, makes her meet her eyes. "What I think is that there is no good way or bad way. And the sooner we let go of expectations about how things are supposed to go, the happier we get to be.

É terrível saber tudo sobre alguém quando já não queremos saber nada sobre ela há muito tempo.

I'd been wrong about the ways we move past the versions of ourselves that no longer fit. I'd thought it involved running, as far and as fast as your feet could carry you, from your former selves. I didn't understand that was the surest way to wind up exactly where you started. 44 In the morning, I looked out the window, feeling foggy and damp, like I'd had a bottle of wine the night before.

The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have of how it could have been. You need to think about how it is now. And how you want it to be.

Maybe freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." She tilted her head. "Did you really just quote Janis Joplin?

To try to let go was to hold more tightly.

How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?

So little gives me joy now that I'm afraid I'll get rid of every single thing I've ever owned and end up with nothing. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Feeling empty only makes me want to be emptier.

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it's not always your heart that betrays you.