Quotes about Letting go

A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn't suit the moment. I let go of the river's song and found the music of that big house. I found room for a new life, a new mother who cared for me, and a new father who patiently taught me not only how to play music, but how to trust. He was as good a man as ever I've known.

quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.

How wonderful the days when all was well. How necessary, also, that we must release them now. It is fine enough to glance at the past, but one must never focus there overlong. Don't you think?

Living, really living, wasn't about clinging to control but about giving it away.

Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another. A death grip doesn't reach very well.

Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

What can't be understood and neatly sewn up must simply be let go, not in the way of giving up, but in the way of understanding who is really in control of it.

Clinging to the past so hard it was like leaving an arrow embedded instead of pulling it out and letting the wound bleed clean, then heal.

Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life—an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.