Quotes About Letting go

Shrugging off this mortal coil?

There were some things that one could stop, or try to stop, but it was a mistake to go through life trying to interfere in things that were beyond your control, or which were going to happen anyway, no matter what you did. A certain amount of acceptance—which was not the same thing as cowardice, or indifference—was necessary or you would spend your life burning up with annoyance and rage.

Why, she asked herself, why keep a wound open when forgiveness can close it?

She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him, yes, but she still did not like to remember. And perhaps a deliberate act of forgetting went along with forgiveness. You forgave, and then you said to yourself: Now I shall forget. Because if you did not forget, then your forgiveness would be tested, perhaps many times and in ways that you could not resist, and you might go back to anger, and to hating.

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 that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

Medicine asked something extraordinary of nurses: to forge intimate connections with another person for hours, weeks, or months, to care thoroughly and holistically—and then to let that individual suddenly go, often never to be heard from again.

It is now clear that we have hung on to too much for too long.

In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly, letting go and dancing with the system.

Interesting things happen when we give up struggling with a situation or problem outside of our control.

I forgive you. I release you. I hold no unforgiveness back. I am free and you are free.

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

At some point you can no longer insist that your children do this or that. I had learned this lesson the hard way. You have to let them fall down and then you can help them get back up. But you have to let them become adults.

you want something, you go and get it. If you don't want that thing, you let it go and stop brooding.

If you believe in the mission of Jesus Christ, then you're bound to try to let go of your past, in the sense that you are entitled to his forgiveness. To keep regretting what was is to deny God's grace.

Let bygones be bygones, but we cannot and should not forget.

She had never thought she would let a daughter of hers go away like this. But what could she do? Children grew up; they pleased themselves; they grew in power to go their own ways as you diminished in power to prevent them.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves — one for yourself.

we're not allowed to ruin the now by beating ourselves up over the then.

So Jim is right, then," said Kelly. "You aren't really caretakers at all. You just let happen what is destined to happen.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Sometimes the only way to hold on is to let go.

If you think about it, the real reason we seek revenge is so that we can let go and recreate or restore balance in our life If we can restore it by choosing to let go then the balance is automatically restored. Also, that eliminates the need for revenge or to focus on the outcome of THEIR life.

When youre ready, just say youre ready. When all the baggage just aint as heavy, and the parties over, just dont forget me.