2,179 Quotes About Letting-go

Chances are if you find yourself caught up in a political foofaraw at work, or in some family squabble at home, it's because someone else is succeeding in convincing you that his problem is your problem. The non-self-destructor recognizes this and as soon as possible, gives the sleepless night back to the person to whom it belongs.

In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.

Seize the day, then let it go.

I love you, and I want you to be happy, I want you to have the life you deserve. And if that means … if that means I have to stand here and watch you walk away, then I’ll do it. I won’t be happy about it. It’ll break my heart. But … if that’s what you really need, then we’re done.

Even though I'd told her that I couldn't walk away from her, I finally realized that I loved her too much to fuck her life by staying, or to lose her completely by forcing us both to hang on until we hated each other.

I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.