Quotes About Release

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

I'm so excited to share 'Heaven In This Hell' with the fans!

Sometimes my past is extraordinarily heavy. That's when I scream and cry until I feel like I can breathe again.

Suddenly pressing both hands on her heart, she fell to the ground, and the mist rose from her and melted in the air. I ran to her. But she began to writhe in such torture that I stood aghast. A moment more and her legs, hurrying from her body, sped away serpents. From her shoulders fled her arms as in terror, serpents also. Then something flew up from her like a bat, and when I looked again, she was gone.

Is it not time I lost a few things when I care for them so unreasonably? This losing of things is of the mercy of God: It comes to teach us to let them go.

A man is enslaved to anything he cannot part with which is less than himself.

A man is in bondage to what ever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

And now must lose them.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

There is, in every man, an animal...imprisoned, like a galley slave, and there is a gate, and if we open the gate, the animal will rush out, like the slave finding his way to escape.

Tu n'est pas mort et la mort même ne saurait te délivrer...

He bowed, still holding her hand, and then, without a word, released it, and marched out, very dignified. It was another fine tragic effect, but Cleone, when the door closed behind him, broke into an hysterical laugh. She was rather amazed, and a little apprehensive.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning or agreeing with a horrendous act. It is a decision to no longer attack one's self.

Forgiveness is the letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

But one thing is certain: the process of freedom is one of subtraction—we are left more empty than when we began.

Liberation, whether experienced pleasurably or painfully, always involves relinquishment, some kind of loss.

We may yearn to "let go and let God," but it usually doesn't happen until we have exhausted our own efforts.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

That's one of the beauties of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim and their work together. They have such a depth to the emotional exploration of the story that they're telling, but there's always a release, and the release is a laugh.

I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as soon as they are eligible for release, only to find they have been senselessly killed by overzealous pound workers.

Whenever I've had a rough day, I like to pour my frustration into my workouts.