2,179 Quotes About Letting-go

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.

Sometimes  we  hold  on  to  that  hurt,  imprisoning ourselves,  asking:  Will  these  people  ever  understand  the  pain  I  had  to  endure?  It  wasn’t  anymore about  what  they  have  done,  or  will  any  person ever  show  remorse,  but  about  the  question:  Will they  know  the  hurt  a  small  girl  had  to  go  through night  after  night,  crying  herself  to  sleep?  

Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let’s experiment with letting go.

Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.

and maybe one day, i won't be so broken anymoreand one day, i will find the lost pieces of me againand then there will be another sunrise where i would glue them backand the next day, i will stand in front of the mirror, smiling at my repaired soul againand that will be the day when my night will endand i will bid the moon a soft goodbyewith a promise to visit sometime againto the stars shining in that dark sky

A beating heart takes a heart's beating.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)