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Quotes about Letting go

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.
- Robert Brault
It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.
- LM Montgomery
Well, that was life. Gladness and pain... hope and fear... and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart... learn to love it and then let it go in turn.
- LM Montgomery
Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.
- Jentezen Franklin
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
- Desmond Tutu
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
- Desmond Tutu
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
- Desmond Tutu
Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.
- Rick Warren
You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.
- Joel Osteen
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
- St. Augustine