Quotes About Release

But all such facts are remote and unsubstantial compared with the near, felt fact of a craving, here and now, for release or sedation, for a drink or a smoke.

Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release.

I drink to my annihilation.

About aviaries: You fill it up, as many as you can. Then one day when something good happens to you, you throw it open and watch them fly away.

You fill it [an aviary] up, with as many as you can. Then one day when something good happens to you, you throw it open and watch them fly away.

I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy you eat banan' pancake?') he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours

As his mother drove him away on the day he was let out, Stuart broke the cardinal prison rule: like Lot's wife, he looked back, at the building he'd just left.

She felt that she had revealed something to Cat, and with revealing something about oneself there always comes a sense of lightening of the load that we all carry; the load of being ourselves.

She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go; she had been locked into a dead relationship and now the last dried skin of it had fallen away, like the scab on a wound, and she was free.

Forgiveness was never easy, but Mma Ramotswe believed in it because she knew that without forgiveness we cluttered our lives with old business.

You have to tell her that you have forgiven what she did to you. You have that duty because we all of us have it. It comes in different forms, but it is always the same duty. We have to forgive.

Not forgiving was like scratching at a sore to keep the healing scab from forming.

Words that are full of hurt sometimes need to be left in the air where they have been spoken.

He had gone through life tiptoeing round Irene's sensitivities, apologising for being who he was, and now it was over. There would be no more apologies. He was free.

People punish themselves—sometimes for years. But it's not always necessary. Forgiveness allows everybody to start again, not to be burdened with a whole lot of old business.

Forgiveness was never easy, but Mma Ramotswe believed in it because she knew that without forgiveness we cluttered our lives with old business. Not forgiving was like scratching at a sore to keep the healing scab from forming.

Shrugging off this mortal coil?

Never be afraid to cry. Sometimes, nothing can cleanse the heart more than a few wet tears.

Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself.

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

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

That's when Kat realized that "I had let go of my pain, my story of loss, my victimhood, the grief and fear and sense of failure and shame and guilt from so much abandonment. I had to say good-bye to all the negative emotions that I had embodied over the years. Because when I let go, I was greeted by a new, deeper layer of wholeness, a sense of inner freedom.

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.