Letting You Go Quotes

• Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Years, Fifty, Might

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1773, Simon and Schuster

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• All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

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• I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Suffering, Letting Go And Moving On

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• I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.

  Bell Hooks

  Pain, Writing, Healing

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• Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Stress, Hands

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  Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving On, Letting Go, Spiritual

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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• Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Strength, Letting Go

  "Letting Go and Feeling Good About It" by Pamela Dussault, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Dec 02, 2011

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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moving On, Depression, Letting Go

  Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.125, Souvenir Press

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• You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Letting Go, Heartbroken, Wisdom

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• By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Winning

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi, Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney (1955), c. 6th - 5th century BC.

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• The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Letting Go, Moving, Accepting

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• If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Letting Go, Focus And Concentration

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• The world is won by those who let it go.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Attachment, Let It Go

  "Tao Te Ching". Ch. 48, as translated by Raymond B. Blakney, 1955.

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• If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving On, Letting Go, Let It Go

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.242, Penguin

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• Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Moving

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• You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

  Candace Bushnell

  Letting Go, Tv Shows, Oleanders

  "Fictional character: Carrie Bradshaw". TV Series "Sex and the City" ("Anchors Away", 2002), www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

  Stephen King

  Friendship, Letting Go, Song

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 08, 2014

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• Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

  Barack Obama

  Moving On, Faith, Letting Go

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.207, Canongate Books

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• You can only lose what you cling to.

  Gautama Buddha

  Moving On, Letting Go, Buddhist

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• Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Letting Go, Art

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• If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Moving On, Marriage

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