2,179 Quotes About Letting-go

Like walking in the darkness--When you walk there long enough,You adjust to it. You forget how dark it is.Then, a glimpse of day! How bright he is!Illuminating everything,My love, my life, my light.But all too soon the curtain fallsBringing back the darkened night.Unaccustomed to it now.Where once it was a peaceful place,It seems as dark as dark can be.Never quite as comfortableOn this strange familiar pathFumbling in the dark and watching nowFor new light to help me find my way.

By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. Pg.116-117

It is not memories but the person we have become because of those past experiences that we should treasure. This is the lesson these keepsakes teach us when we sort them. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not the person we were in the past. P.118

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past.

I once found a phoenixcharred in its own ashes. Ibrought it home withme, wept through the night,and then tossed it tothe wind--its brittle bodydispersing all about.This thing withouta name and deep withinme--how it truly believesthat if something is meantto take flight, then itmust one way or another.

Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.

There’s no need to look back. What’s behind you is smaller than what’s in front you.