letting-go

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102e067	The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.	forgiveness inspirational letting-go life motivational moving-forward truth	Steve Maraboli
7ad18d3	If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.	forgetting hate inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes letting-go life life-and-living living strength	C. JoyBell C.
cc9d2d3	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.	freedom friends friendship letting-go	Stephen King
7c92092	Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.	accept-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring keep-moving-forward letting-go life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living love-yourself optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
e321dd7	Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.	destiny happiness history inspirational let-go letting-go life motivational moving-on success	Steve Maraboli
5b94198	If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.	change growth inspirational letting-go life mistakes	Steve Maraboli
f76b713	Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.	heal inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes learning let-go letting-go letting-go-of-the-past life life-quotes pain spiritual time	Roy T. Bennett
b653c92	Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.	change control empowerment inspirational letting-go life motivational	Steve Maraboli
9c83e30	A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it's up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.	cherishing faith heartwarming hope inspirational learning letting-go life life-and-learning life-and-living life-lessons stars treasure	C. JoyBell C.
2c8fc49	Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.	choice future inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring letting-go letting-go-and-moving-on life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
9d21865	There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.	letting-go love loving separating separation	Kate DiCamillo
ec3e7c7	You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.	control inspirational letting-go life motivational stress	Steve Maraboli
c89a2c4	Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can't "should've" done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!	action attachment change inspirational letting-go life live-now motivational success today	Steve Maraboli
9b7cce4	Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.	letting-go life life-lessons love memories not-letting-go	haruki murakami
b59419b	The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.	action change inspirational journey letting-go life	Steve Maraboli
360e9ca	We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break	breakup goodbye inspirational letting-go love release romance	Jenny Han
21c973e	Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.	attitude-toward-life believe-in-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes letting-go life life-lessons self-love values wasting-time	Turcois Ominek
aaf1a88	Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring letting-go life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
805c757	The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.	inspirational letting-go life motivational simplicity	Steve Maraboli
bf592c7	Closing The Cycl	inspirational letting-go	Paulo Coelho
d80f1cf	"Closing The Cycle One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters - whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden? You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back. Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts - and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.	letting-go	Paulo Coelho
c667214	Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.	forgiveness forgiving giving-up hearbreak letting-go loving mercy true-love	Jodi Picoult
65ba401	Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.	inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring letting-go life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking	Roy T. Bennett
311bc49	Learning to should be learned before learning to Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph.	letting-go life	Ray Bradbury
c447ee7	The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.	letting-go loss	Rebecca Solnit
2d7ee33	There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........ is found the flight!	belief destiny flying flying-spirit footprints god inspiration inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes letting-go life living meaning-of-life truth	C. JoyBell C.
82ad1ba	Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.	agreement-with-reality changing inspirational labels letting-go life motivational	Steve Maraboli
1644dcd	Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.	action change inspirational letting-go life motivational simplicity spiritual-growth	Steve Maraboli
a06bcac	For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.	despair letting-go life moving-on sadness	Harriet Beecher Stowe
e54f295	We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.	letting-go	Elisabeth Elliot
5fc60da	I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.	cleansing devout fasting hunger hypocrite letting-go yearning	Mohsin Hamid
cd640fc	If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.	letting-go parenting	Neil Gaiman
80fbe70	It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.	letting-go starting-over	Tony Parsons
f3b1a58	She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us	letting-go	Chris Manby
14f8cf3	But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?	goodness inspiration letting-go life love moving-on	Cecelia Ahern
f83aef2	Because sometimes it's about letting go of what your mind tells you and following what your heart shows you instead. That's how you know it will always be real.	letting-go	T.J. Klune
e0b7d51	"--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals."	forgiveness letting-go	David James Duncan
4c5a056	"If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory."	faith glory god hearts letting-go life thankfulness	Elisabeth Elliot
dca64f3	Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait a lui sans qu'il eut a s'en saisir. Quand on s'abandonne on ne souffre pas. Quand on s'abandonne meme a la tristesse on ne souffre plus.	letting-go sadness suffering	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
0f90478	I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....	difficulties friendship letting-go moving-on relationship sister	Lois Lowry
ae6156e	"I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand."	letting-go	Jacqueline Carey
91c3c53	These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains. I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and flossing.	forgiveness happy letting-go prayer surrender trust	Anne Lamott
4466e03	"You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has befallen you both. And what you loved, what both of you truly loved, was not each other. It was the time of your life. It was the spring of your years, and life running strong in you, and war on your doorstep and your strong, perfect bodies. Look back, in truth. You will find you recall fully as many quarrels and tears as you do lovemaking and kisses. Fitz. Be wise. Let her go, and keep those memories intact. Save what you can of her, and let her keep what she can of the wild and daring boy she loved. Because both he and that merry little miss are no more than memories anymore." She shook her head. "No more than memories."	fitzchivalry-farseer kettle letting-go love	Robin Hobb
50d70d6	But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.	letting-go life moving-on optimism reality waiting world	Lois Lowry
cafde12	I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.	letting-go moving-forward past	Margaret Atwood
9fdd8f2	How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you've been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?	faith heaven inspirational-quotes letting-go love moving-on	Mitch Albom
ec52b84	When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness...In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth.	abuse-recovery abuse-survivors child-abuse child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-survivor healing if-only incest letting-go powerless powerlessness survivor survivor-of-abuse survivors-of-abuse truth	Maureen Brady
9acbceb	Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.	college ghosts letting-go	Maureen Johnson
53b0764	It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.	letting-go love	Robin Hobb
5c72f89	As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'.	conflict-resolution conflicts cut-a-movie letting-go parenthood parenting parents peace-maker resolving-problems simple-issues street-violence walking-away youth-violence	Drexel Deal
7ab6f18	We all know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a time when we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of them in the water.	letting-go letting-go-of-the-past	Joan Didion

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The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

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Steve Maraboli

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If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.

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C. JoyBell C.

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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.

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Stephen King

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Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

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Steve Maraboli

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If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

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Steve Maraboli

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Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

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Steve Maraboli

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A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it's up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.

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C. JoyBell C.

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Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.

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Roy T. Bennett

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There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

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Kate DiCamillo

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You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

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Steve Maraboli

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Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can't "should've" done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!

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Steve Maraboli

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Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

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haruki murakami

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The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

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Steve Maraboli

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We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break

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Jenny Han

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Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

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Turcois Ominek

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Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.

inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring letting-go life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking

Roy T. Bennett

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The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

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Steve Maraboli

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Closing The Cycl

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Paulo Coelho

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"Closing The Cycle One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters - whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden? You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back. Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts - and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

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Paulo Coelho

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Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

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Jodi Picoult

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Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Learning to should be learned before learning to Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph.

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Ray Bradbury

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The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

letting-go loss

Rebecca Solnit

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There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........ is found the flight!

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C. JoyBell C.

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Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.

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Steve Maraboli

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Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

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Steve Maraboli

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For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

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Elisabeth Elliot

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I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.

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Mohsin Hamid

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If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

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Neil Gaiman

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It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

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Tony Parsons

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She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us

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Chris Manby

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But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

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Cecelia Ahern

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Because sometimes it's about letting go of what your mind tells you and following what your heart shows you instead. That's how you know it will always be real.

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T.J. Klune

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"--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals."

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David James Duncan

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"If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory."

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Elisabeth Elliot

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Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait a lui sans qu'il eut a s'en saisir. Quand on s'abandonne on ne souffre pas. Quand on s'abandonne meme a la tristesse on ne souffre plus.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

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Lois Lowry

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"I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand."

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Jacqueline Carey

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These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains. I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and flossing.

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Anne Lamott

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"You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has befallen you both. And what you loved, what both of you truly loved, was not each other. It was the time of your life. It was the spring of your years, and life running strong in you, and war on your doorstep and your strong, perfect bodies. Look back, in truth. You will find you recall fully as many quarrels and tears as you do lovemaking and kisses. Fitz. Be wise. Let her go, and keep those memories intact. Save what you can of her, and let her keep what she can of the wild and daring boy she loved. Because both he and that merry little miss are no more than memories anymore." She shook her head. "No more than memories."

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Robin Hobb

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But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

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Lois Lowry

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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

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Margaret Atwood

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How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you've been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

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Mitch Albom

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When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness...In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth.

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Maureen Brady

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Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

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Maureen Johnson

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It's not the sort of thing one asks of a friend. He hasn't offered, and I will not ask it. I will not tear him that way. I am trying to let go. I don't know how.

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Robin Hobb

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As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, 'everybody wants to cut a movie'.

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Drexel Deal

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We all know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a time when we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of them in the water.

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