Quotes about Letting go

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Rich Miller, Letting Go of Fear (Harvest House Publishers, 2018).

It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

We all make mistakes. There's a place we can take those to. There's a thing we can nail them to." Her eyes close for a moment and she sees the cross in the shadows of the fading light. "You can nail it to the cross and let it go, Dan. You can let someone else take that burden.

It is painful to break the sad links to the past

Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.