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Quotes About Letting go

Let the things of long ago drift away on the water
~ Alan Brennert
Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.
~ Alan Cohen
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold.
~ Alan Cohen
When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.
~ Alan Cohen
What was, was. What is, is. Be true to what is, rather than clinging to an old form. Then you will create new meaningful relationships that match who you are and what you want.
~ Alan Cohen
When a relationship has served its purpose, there is no use to try to hang onto it.
~ Alan Cohen
Carrying the past with us is always more burdensome than any mistake we have made. Guilt, resentment, and criticism of self or other s for past deeds is far more debilitating than a momentary error. Any energy we invest in reliving or resenting the past detracts from the life at hand.
~ Alan Cohen
Si has de luchar para conseguir o conservar algo, es que no te pertenece y estás mejor sin ello.
~ Alan Cohen
What comes of itself, let it come. What goes of itself, let it go.
~ Alan Cohen
Tu pasado no tiene poder para perseguirte. Eres tú quien se persigue a sí mismo concentrándote en un pasado doloroso —le respondí.
~ Alan Cohen
Todo tu pasado, excepto su belleza, ha desaparecido, y no queda ni rastro de él, salvo una bendición» (T-5.IV.8:2).
~ Alan Cohen
All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing.
~ Alan Cohen
Back to Jak— Why does everyone always want to go back to Jakku? There's nothing there! Sand and junk and rocks and sand and quicksand and sand—I don't get it!
~ Alan Dean Foster
if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future
~ Alan Lightman
I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.
~ Derek Walcott
Now for Heavens sake go to bed. Dont worry about how it was done just go straight to bed. Leave the washing-up and get into bed fully clothed. If any of you want to know how any of it was done, please feel free to write in to me at my home address which will come up on the screen in a moment and I will give you a full and honest explanation of anything you may ask.
~ Derren Victor Brown
In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.
~ Derrick Jensen
NO CHAIN, She asked me did I ever love her, my reply was of course I did, and she said why didn't you try an' get me back, then I told her our love was lost, that you are referring to is not love, It is called obsession, something I could never be. -MillYentei
~ Deshawn Yeldell
Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
~ Desmond Tutu
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
~ Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
~ Desmond Tutu
As long as we cling (moha), we are trapped. As soon as we let go, we are liberated (moksha). We become independent and content in our own company (atma-rati) yet generous and dependable for the other (brahma-nirvana).
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The wise want nothing but accept whatever comes their way, letting it pass when it is time to part ways. Ram is
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Ramkrishna Paramhansa, the nineteenth-century Bengali mystic, said that the essence of The Gita can be deciphered simply by reversing the syllables that constitute Gita. So Gita, or gi-ta, becomes ta-gi, or tyagi, which means 'one who lets go of possessions.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik