Quotes About Relinquishment

Holding something doesn't make it yours. You realize at some point you're just keeping it back for yourself, because it's pulling away with equal force. You've got to cut the string from your finger and leave that wispy thread, like a baby spider on the breeze.

It's impossible to hold on to anything really. Everything slips away in due time.

The problem with collecting other people's junk is you just don't know what to do with it when you don't want it anymore. You feel bad about throwing it to the curb. It's too much trouble to sell. So you keep it around, knowing if you can't redeem it, exactly, you've at least rescued it. Somewhat.

Many states have relinquishment policies that force parents to choose between keeping their children or getting them help. Those who do relinquish their children may face criminal abandonment charges and may be ineligible to adopt again." -- Mary Boo, Assistant Director of the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) in Minnesota.

There's nothing like illness to take away a sense of control

She had to let go of the things she couldn't control. It hurt too much otherwise.

Let go of him, for cryin' out loud!

He gave you to me, she said, so low I could hardly hear her. Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

My share, it should be lost.

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

I'm screwed, Eric repeats, and shakes his head. I have to go. Take care of her, okay? He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. I always do, I say.

The easiest way to Grow, is to let Go. Knowing, that someone else is managing the show!

Letting go isn't easy, but it's necessary

When you no longer wish to defend, explain or fight then its time to give up...no matter how much you don't want to.

There's a huge difference between giving up and letting go Giving up is sacrificing what was rightfully yours, and letting go is forgetting what never was.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

It's very difficult for an entrepreneur to let go. It's very hard to sell a successful business. People sometimes hold on until the business has no value at all.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

Just something else to let go of.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

Real trust isn't believing that God will do things as we expect he should; it is, rather, believing that whatever he does is good and perfect. We will only find relief from fear if we relinquish our expectations of what we think God ought to do for us and ask him to create within our hearts a trusting expectation for what he wills to do. If

Lord, I think I made a mess of things. So I am placing the whole situation in your hands. Do with it what you will." Our