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Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it?"She bit his good shoulder. "You're about to find out."She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. "Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side.
— J.D. Robb, Memory in Death
My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.
— Holly Black, Kin
I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea, time flowed past indifferently above us, hours and days had no meaning. In the beginning our life held a joy and amazement which was newborn every day. Beneath the joy, of course, was anguish and beneath the amazement was fear; but they did not work themselves to the beginning until our high beginning was aloes on our tongues. By then anguish and fear had become the surface on which we slipped and slid, losing balance, dignity, and pride.
— James     Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.
— Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk on the Couch
Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by lithe limbs and brilliant blue eyes. Doctor Archer has never really understood women, nor has he ever had time for courtship; this is a sacrifice he has willingly made for his career. He thought - believed - for most of his adult life that his vocation was to tend the sick of mind. Romance was a frivolity, carnal urges something he successfully sublimated, resisting the drive to spoil himself. Now, in the overbearing loneliness of his 4am bed he touches himself in secret, panting and hungry and stunned by shame
— John T. Fuller
You know this is wrong."It isn't a question. When he turns, White is still wrapped snug in the counterpane, motionless, just his gaze pursuing the doctor about the room. "I am wrong to do this." The doctor says it as if instructing himself. White says nothing. With a sigh, Archer sits on the edge of the bed, smoothing White's curls back from his forehead. "Do you know what we did last night?" To admit it, to speak out loud, seems in itself a terrible affront. It might be his imagination, but the doctor fancies he sees a slight lowering of black lashes, the tiniest quirk of a shy smile. He says, wearily but not without affection, "No, I don't suppose you do.
— John T. Fuller
Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle
— Leah Braemel
If there was one thing Sam understood, it was guilt. It didn't have to be logical; oftentimes it wasn't. Itsawed at your gut relentlessly, tediously, until you wore it like a scar.
— Debra Cowan
Hello." The doctor speaks softly, nervously. Mr White doesn't respond, not even the slightest change of expression. Dr Archer has been thinking. Mulling it over in his head, endlessly, driving himself more insane he thinks than any unfortunate in his care, crazy with this longing. He is afraid of spiders, he watches the clouds, he held up two fingers; he is lucid. He came to me of his own free will; he shares these terrible feelings.
— John T. Fuller
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
— Terry Pratchett
I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.
— Jeffrey McDaniel
Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye
— Beyoncé Knowles
If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.
— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.
— Jojo Moyes, After You
Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now
—  it's frozen shut.
Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past
— Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With
It's effortless to let go of self-absorbed people. It's challenging to let go of someone you care about and it's exceedingly difficult to let go of an ideal and a belief in someone because what exacerbates the disappointment of finding out they weren't who they presented themselves to be, is the betrayal of it.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, she'd admitted, but she would never trust him. She would always hate him for what he'd done.But he could do this for her. Even if he never saw her again, even if she abandoned her duties as King's Champion and stayed with the Fae in Wendlyn forever-as long as he knew that she was safe, that no one could hurt her... He'd sell his soul again and again for that.
— Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
You can meet someone who’s just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just accept it and move on.
— Winna Efendi, Melbourne: Rewind
I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.
— Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You
They say when you really love someone, you should be willing to set them free. So that is what I am doing. I will step back and you will move on. I will let you go. ... Your happiness means everything to me. I will listen for your voice in the distance. I will look at the moon. I will keep you in my pocket. I will carry your smile with me everywhere, like a warm and comforting glow.
— Tabitha Suzuma, A Voice in the Distance
Whatever comes, let it come, what stays let stay, what goes let go.
— Papaji
When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be.
— Donna Lynn Hope
how can he love me then not? He went,he ran. And I cannot bring him back. Yet I left the door metaphorically wide open, hoping he'd come back and bang on it proclaiming, "I want to be here with you. Always." Soon I'm going to have to shutit. For my safety and my sanity. Let go. I don't want to. Won't letting go be just that - letting go? Giving up? Admitting failure? Admitting that it is really, truly over?
— Freya North, Cat
She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
Sometimes you have to stop trying to control everything and let life happen the way it's supposed to, Tess. Even if it's not exactly the way you wanted.But what if it's not even a little like you wanted?Then you deal with it and keep going.
— Lord, Cynthia
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Don't go through life
—  grow through life.
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.
— Aron Ralston, Between a Rock and a Hard Place
You should get out of here. Have a good life.
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
Your body will forget, but your mind often doesn't.
— Winna Efendi, Melbourne: Rewind
Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.
— Steve Maraboli
you've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.
— Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.
— Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding
I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.
— Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 05
It's the way you fall you. Gotta let yourself go.
— Melville Shavelson
Then, she let it go.
— Cassia Leo, The Way We Fall
Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good.
— Samuel Beckett, Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho
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.
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Avatar
His being there was stirring up a lot of memories she'd have been happier to leave as sentimental sediment. Not that they weren't good memories. That was the trouble.
— Diana Killian, Dial Om for Murder
I drift off for a while. I don't know how long, but when I open my eyes, the Oscars are still on and Alex tells me that Sid has gone and this makes me a little sad. Whatever the four of us had is over. He is my daughter's boyfriend now, and I am a father. A widower. No pot, no cigarettes, no sleeping over. They'll have to find inventive ways to conduct their business, most likely in uncomfortable places, just like the rest of them. I let him and my old ways go. We all let him go, as well as who we were before this, and now it's really just the three of us. I glance over at the girls, taking a good look at what's left.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants
We have to unclasp our palms and let go of every alternate reality where we’re happier, stronger, brighter because of all the things we did differently. Those universes do not exist. But ours does. And it’s okay here, if we open our eyes up and let it be.
— Heidi Priebe
I smile, comforted by the knowledge that I am not alone. That I haven't been left behind. That when everyone else moves on, when they find new lives and loves and joys, it just might be alright to stay where you are, as long as there's someone standing next to you, holding your hand, telling you it will be okay.
— Rebecca Harris - Be The Death of Me
When you become a happier human being as a result of letting go of certain people or things, that's the universe's way of letting you know it was the right choice.
— Unknown
It is not easy to let someone go, even when they have said unforgivable things to you.
— Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures
The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now. Not for the person we were in the past.
— Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.
— Drishti Bablani
You spend years swaying between letting go  and holding on, only to finally realise that  letting go off - someone you truly loved is  never about forgetting them completely or  achieving indifference. Their mention will still  trigger a momentary heaviness, their sadness  will still make you uneasy, their happiness will  still make you happy. You can't break those  strings, they just loosen up enough, not to  keep you tied. You never let go off them,  you just let go the Hope of togetherness.
— Drishti Bablani, Uns
You have to let the balloon go if you want to see it fly.
— Marty Rubin
Seeking answers to questions is what draws us forward. When you have no more questions you live in the satisfaction of the present moment. You have no more questions when you finally learn that love is the answer. Love is always the answer.
— Kate McGahan
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.
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate
As long as she is near or within his power to reach, he will be drawn to her, leaving less of him for others and that's why she had to leave. She knew, despite her own great desire, that there are consequences and responsibilities that are more important and life-altering than personal feelings.
— Donna Lynn Hope
If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?
— Kat Von D., Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing
Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.
— Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
It’s amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down, or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.
— Tamara Thiel, Random Musings of a Curious Soul
Fall for me, Aimee. I’ll catch you. Let go, baby.
— Kerry Lonsdale, Everything We Keep
He just can't let her goit's not the sound of her laughor the softness of her skinthat he misses the mostit's the way she loved himlike no one ever hasthe way she held himwhen he was hurting herthe way she felt his painlike it was her ownand he just wasn't readyto let all of that goyet this morninghe opened his eyesand she was gone
— Shelby Leigh, It Starts Like This: a collection of poetry
It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.
— Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Question: Where do I go from here?Answer: Out of your comfort zone. In the direction of your dreams.
— Izey Victoria Odiase
They embraced in parting. There were tears in the merchant’s eyes:“I do not like parting.”“Life consists of partings,” said Arseny. “But you can rejoice more fully in companionship when you remember that.”“But I would (the merchant Vladislav blew his nose) gather up all the good people I’ve met and never let them go.”“I think then they would quickly become mean,” smiled Ambrogio. (p. 238)
— Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus
Forgetting is not forgettingForgetting is ‘Letting things pass’When Existence opens up to EssenceAnd rises above and beyondThe path of Transcendence opensLove goes beyond DeathThe body disappears The person livesIn LoveAnd in this LoveRemembrance is born(Page 91)
— Neena Verma, A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go
— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
It might be harder than you imagined it to be -- it might take longer -- but you can change things, Marik. Your life is significant. As low as you are . . . there is only room to rise. But you have to let go.
— Rick Remender (Author)
Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine
— John Crowder, The Ecstasy of Loving God
But i can't let you go," he said. "How could I let you go? I searched my heart"—he shrugged— "and I love you.
— Lauren Myracle, The Infinite Moment of Us
It is better to be a king in the jungle and be celebrated than to be an unknown champion where you’d not be afforded the kind of respect you deserve.
— Olawale Daniel
Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.
— Julie Schumacher, Grass Angel
Sometimes the only reason why you won't let go of someone making you sad is because he was the only one that once made you happy.
— Lily Amis, Angel of Love  Lily: Zak, My Sweet Inspiration
You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.
— Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word
Letting go is one of the most difficult experiences to deal with whether it's right or wrong. So make the most of every moment you've been gifted with. To whoever you initiate contact with and wherever, try to leave a positive impression. To whoever you have the power to make smile, exploit that power as often and best as you can, because when every other material thing fades, it's those memories that keep us alive
— Ufuoma Apoki
Letting go of someone you loved wasn't hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn't let them go they were still gone.
— Lauren Kate, Waterfall
Letting go isn’t about forgetting
—  it’s about learning and moving on. It’s making a choice to be strengthened by your past… not strangled by it.
Our spirit requires freedom in every area of our lives. The barriers that stop our soul from free expression are doubt, guilt, resentment, and thoughts of lack or limitation.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
It is a state of peace to be able to accept things as they are. This is to be at home in our own lives. We see that this universe is much too big to hold on to, but it is the perfect size for letting go. Our hearts and minds become that big, and we can actually let go. This is the gift of equanimity.
— Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
He changed me...here" He tapped his chest. "I'm not sure I can be the same person I used to be.""I'm not asking you for that, man. I'm not asking you to forget or even forgive. I'm telling you to find a way to get around it, not over it.
— Ann Simko, Fallen
You don't have to do this, Dakota. Nothing that man has to say to you is of any consequence. You already know his song.
— Ann Simko, Fallen
We're taught and trained to hold it all inside, to not feel the beauty of the innocence of letting it out when and how we feel it.And we do; we do for the fear of avoiding the stigma of weakness, until it breaks us from the inside, slowly and silently, and there is "little" or "nothing" left of us. Those who are courageous to hold on, learn to be strong and proficiently wave off the numerous darts as they come. Do they, really? It takes just one "planned" move, and all the impenetrable walls come crashing down.
— Ufuoma Apoki
...it is hard to throw off long-established love:hard, but this you must managed somehow
— J.K. Rowling, The Silkworm
We amass material things for the same reason that we eat - to satisfy a craving. Buying on impulse and eating and drinking to excess are attempts to alleviate stress. From observing my clients, I have noticed that when they discard excess clothing, their tummies tend to slim down, when they discard books and documents, their minds become clearer, when they reduce the number of cosmetics and tidy up the area around the sink and bath, their complexion tends to become clear and their skin smooth. -p226
— Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Finn said, “You feel the wind is a bully, beating you. But that is your seeing. That is your story, not the wind’s. To a bird who rides it, that wind is only a kind hand. Because the bird rides the wind’s power. Do you understand?” Clare, bitter, cold, and wind-battered, frowned stubbornly. “But a bird can fly. I can’t fly.” He turned to look at her, and his face was troubled. “If you cling to the safety of the rock, indeed you can’t. To fly, you open your arms and fall, heart first, trusting the wind to bear you up. That’s what the birds do.
— Katherine Catmull, The Radiant Road
It is not until you find yourself lost in the silence that you will learn to let go because everyone has let go of you.
— Shannon L. Alder
People will always reveal themselves to you. Read the signs and know when to let go.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.
— Kelly    Martin, When Everyone Shines But You - Saying Goodbye To I'm Not Good Enough
The most liberating moment, is the moment you finally let go.
— Ava Harrison, Imperfect Truth
If they weren’t good for you in 2015, they won’t be great for you in 2016. Let them go.
— Robert Tew
In fact, that particular article of clothing has already completed its role in your life, and you are free to say, "Thank you for giving me joy when I bought you," or "Thank you for teaching me what doesn't suit me," and let it go.Every object has a different role to play. Not all clothes have come to you to be worn threadbare. It is the same with people. Not every person you meet in your life will become a close friend or lover. Some you will find hard to get along with or impossible to like. But these people, too, teach you the precious lesson of who you DO like, so that you will appreciate those special people even more.When you come across something that you cannot part with, think carefully about its true purpose in your life. You'll be surprised at how many of the things you possess have already fulfilled their role. By acknowledging their contribution and letting them go with gratitude, you will be able to truly put the things you own, and your life in order. In the end, all that will remain are the things that you really treasure..p 60-61
— Marie Kondō
Life is a balance of hanging on and letting go.In the moment, shut down the mind and let intuition give you the answer. Have no regrets.
— Matthew Donnelly
Letting go meant you accepted what couldn't be changed. You didn't try to hold on to hope in order to coerce a change in fortune...nor did you battle against superior forces of fate and try to make them capitulate to your will...nor did you beg for salvation because you assumed you knew better. Letting go meant you stared at what was before you with clear eyes, recognizing that unfettered choice was the exception and destiny the rule.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound
You're looking for a reason," she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair
Life seems to flood by, taking our loves quickly in its flow. In the growth of children, in the aging of beloved parents, time's chart is magnified, shown in its particularity, focused, so that with each celebration of maturity there is also a pang of loss. This is our human problem, one common to parents, sons and daughters, too - how to let go while holding tight, how to simultaneously cherish the closeness and intricacy of the bond while at the same time letting out the raveling string, the red yarn that ties our hearts.
— Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
Life happens with or without our permission.
— Sheila Tiller-Tooks
Let go of the attachment, keep the lesson
— L.J. Vanier, Ether: Into the Nemesis
Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.
— Darcey Steinke, Sister Golden Hair
The bitter heart eats its owner.
— Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell from the Sky
..it is hard to throw off long-established love;Hard, but this you must manage somehow..
— Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm
I didn't know how to let you go.
— Katie Cotugno, 99 Days
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.
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest
When you hold onto a script that doesn't serve you, you leave no space to write a new one that does.
— Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.
— Guy Finley
I pour blood on my naiveté, your apathy, and your betrayal tonight.
— Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes
Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
You don't smile when you're holding on. You smile when you're letting go.
— Taylor Adams, Eyeshot
You know you're in a good place when you no longer are interested in looking back. You prefer to enjoy the journey.
— Karen Salmansohn
To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The process of letting go is an act of accepting.
— Debasish Mridha
Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it's gone for good.
— Eleanor Brownn
We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you.
— Seth Adam Smith
It is by giving the freedom to the other, that is by letting go, we gain our own freedom back.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference betweenthe two can make all the difference in the end.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
…it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21)
— Jeanette Lynes, Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets
it is hard to let go , to imagine alternatives, stop thinking about things you are not ready to explore .
— Kamal Benslimane Soufiane
How can I possibly find the right one, if the one that I have right now couldn't let me go?
— Ressha
Life is full of bullshit; reject or deal with it, but move on.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
You can't fight the whole world, and you can't keep fighting everyone in your own world. It's not about giving up, it's about letting go.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
Nothing you love is left behind. You come back to it once you understand it, once you see its essence as it is: pure and flawless - once you refuse to define your life without it. Look into yourself. The only thing you regret in the end is falling for someone's definition of love instead of exploring its infinite potential. It is not saying "I love you" to people who should have heard it from you. There is no flaw in love.
— Vladimira Chalyova
She sat there reading; cool, calm and collected. "You could ruin his life with that information," her friend reported triumphantly. The woman sighed, clearly annoyed at being interrupted. "If I did he would never forget me," she replied. "Besides...I don't care enough about his life to concern myself with what he does with it as long as he doesn't concern himself with thoughts of me." Her friend furrowed her brows. "Why?" she asked. The woman set her book down, leaned forward provocatively and said, "Because then I'd have to think of him too.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Let go... How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the “could’ve” and “should’ve,” to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.
— Steve Maraboli
Sometimes the way to share your love is to let someone go.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Let go with love.
— Danielle Barone
Life is meant to be remarkable. . let go and let it be!
— Heidi Reagan
Let go... How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the 'could’ve' and 'should’ve,' to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.
— Steve Maraboli
I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.
— Richard Matheson, Somewhere In Time
Letting go is easy. All you do is realize how crazy it is to live in the fantasy land of your mind at the expense of missing real opportunities in reality.
— Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
Kiss me again. Let me imagine for a moment that you belong to me. The memory will keep me company in my solitude.
— Kirsten Miller, All You Desire
A scar on the heart will heal. Let your love remain pure as if it was never cut in the first place.
— Aline Alzime
Letting go is never easy. There is no short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It's not easy and it's likely to hurt, but it is for the best.
— Steve Maraboli
Note the lessons a broken heart has taught you but don't ever alter the love you can give. Don't let a broken heart hinder your kind of love.
— Aline Alzime
Laying down what we want to protect or are afraid of losing or are terrified we will never have is not the same thing as losing those things. It is surrendering them. It is opening up our clenched hand around them and allowing God access to them and to us. It is actually saying yes to God for them. Yes to his plan. Yes to his way. It is believing that just as his ways are higher than the heavens are above the earth, so his way for the things we fear is higher. This God of ours is a God of life, of goodness. He is the God of the Resurrection. We lay down our fear. We pick up Jesus. He is the only way we can live beyond fear. He is the Way.
— Stasi Eldredge, Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You
You must learn that nobody can control everything in the flow of life,” said Dart. “Control is something we all strive for—but you will find, as you become more experienced with magic, that you gain more control over yourself by releasing your need to control life.
— A. Grace Martin, Spirit Rider
Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.
— Dee Williams
The only thing you should never hold on to is a grudge.
— Lisa M. Cronkhite, Disconnected
As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on.
— Spencer Johnson, The Present : The Secret to Enjoying Your Work And Life, Now!
Things change, time changes. People change, life changes. Time changes things, life changes people.
— Aline Alzime
he had kidded with us that if we didn't let go at the proper moment, he would slap our hands with a stick, and we had all laughed because who would be silly enough to hang on when they should let go?
— Dee Williams
Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone is the freedom to pursue their happiness.
— S.K. Nicholls, Red Clay and Roses
And it killed me because I could never forget him. Couldn't because he'd permanently etched himself to me, left a part of himself forever within me. For so many years I'd loved him, but when he'd gone this time, he'd taken a part of me captive too, a piece that could never be retrieved because it would always belong to him...
— A.L. Jackson, Come to Me Quietly
She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she'd never thought of, to show her new points of view.
— Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days
And it killed me because i could never forget him. Couldn't because he'd permanently etched himself to me, left a part of himself forever within me. For so many year I'd loved him, but when he'd gone this time, he'd taken a part of me captive too, a piece that could never be retrieved because it would always belong to him.
— A.L. Jackson, Come to Me Quietly
Perhaps there are some things we can't let go of, but simply accept as over.
— Kristen Callihan, Moonglow
Sometimes the only way to keep love, is to let it go.
— Prashant Chopra, The Eyes that drowned Uyuni
Some people have to leave your life because their very presence prevents, perverts & distorts your purpose. Don't be afraid to let go.
— Renita Bryant, Yesterday Mourning
Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.
— Toni Sorenson
Should I really set her free, and free myself too of the fear - the fear of missing her, forever? Is that what my love for her is leaving me with?
— Prashant Chopra, The Eyes that drowned Uyuni
I'm grateful you entrusted me with them. But the day will come when someone will knock the sails out of you. She'll shatter every belief you had of me and you. She'll give herself completely and unconditionally
—  and you will too. And I'll be nothing more than a fond memory.
The problem is that stepping away from Brian, leaving him standing under that pergola on Wednesday, is no longer enough to leave behind how he made me feel in that hour. I could leave him there, we could part as strangers, but God, I know that I would look for him. He would live in my peripheral vision, a ghost nudging me to turn and look behind me, only to find a spot that is emptier than empty
— Mary Ann Rivers
What is the purpose of my life, is it doesn't have to do with learning to let go?
— Jack Johnson, Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static Songbook
Riding high and above the waves on extemporaneous notions of an afterlife, Michael brought one foot forward and let it dangle over the roof’s edge. He knew that he did not have much time before the other would follow. Some patients below could see the figure atop the building fromthe courtyard. They started to rile with anticipation, their irate murmurings incomprehensible. Agroundskeeper looked up to see what justified the commotion. Michael could hear the shoutsfrom below. He almost toppled when the wind picked up again, but recovered and kept one footdangling with the other anchored to the roof. The hoots came louder now, almost calling himtoward them like sirens guiding ships in the night. From below it was impossible to make out theface of the balancing figurine now poised in suspended descent. Another gust came. He closedhis eyes, felt the levity manifesting, and felt the complete freedom inside. He could feel himselfgliding down like the sail of a weightless craft, forever plunging into the great beyond, belowwhere mermaids sing and summon their lovers home, further down into the depths of somecomplacent serenity, further down where thoughts float away and never return and the lightnessis so grand that there is no other worldly place imaginable, for there is no world left to beconsidered. There is only the soul, free from the prison of the body, and it is released to travelanother millennium through time, carrying with it the progress and industry gathered from themind previously occupied. The time it spans inconceivable. He let his other foot go from the roofand felt himself completely let go.
— Matthew Chase Stroud, Paths of Young Men
Don't try fixing something that is already broken in the first place.
— John Robert Go
No matter what, we have to keep moving forward, even if we have to crawl.
— Kellie Elmore
Letting go isn’t about having the courage to release the past
—  it’s about having the wisdom to embrace the present.
Sometimes people are so genuinely themselves they aren't conscious of the fact they have wronged you
—  sometimes you shouldn't care enough to bring it to their attention.
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
— Julianna Baggott, Fuse
Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality.
— Elizabeth Kim, Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan
Fear is just like mist. Don’t let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction... and repeat.
— Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain
It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Wall Around Your Heart
You don't live in the past
—  you take a sledgehammer to it to see what stands so that you can build on it.
We love someone, so we care. That love can morph into feeling responsible for them, then into we're accountable, then into we're to blame for their self-inflicted pain; then it's our fault if they crash and burn; then the fear causes us to hold on even tighter. Walk this in reverse until you get back to, "we love, we care". Now, love with wisdom. Step one in placing someone's life into His hands.
— Lee  Goff
Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.
— Cassia Leo, Bring Me Home
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.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world.""Not my world."I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.
— Alex Flinn, Beastly
This he had noticed while doing his military service back in Turkey. When more than three people slept in a narrow place, sooner or later their breaths would become synchronized. Perhaps it was God's way of telling us that if we could just let go of ourselves, we would all eventually be in step and there would be no more disputes.
— Elif Shafak
Even though I'd told her that I couldn't walk away from her, I finally realized that I loved her too much to fuck her life by staying, or to lose her completely by forcing us both to hang on until we hated each other.
— Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster
You have to let go of those feelings, Ra. Anger, fear, regret. It’s the only way you can forgive yourself and love again.
— Winna Efendi, Melbourne: Rewind
Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says.
— Lauren DeStefano, Sever
Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it
— Samantha Jones, Just Friends Never Lovers
He says, "But it is really whatever, you know? You've saved me way more times. And we call ourselves friends."It doesn't matter what we call ourselves, really. "You already saved me," I say."That was nothing.""I'm not talking about the cave."He wrinkles his nose."That first day," I say, "When you got up on the rocks to flirt with a human boy."He smiles big, with all his ground-down teeth shining.
— Hannah Moskowitz, Teeth
Let me go!” she growls. “No.” “Let me fucking go, Colton.” Her voice is tiny, scared, vulnerable, and vehement. “You let go.” “Why?” A hitch in her voice. “Because holding on to it is killing you.
— Jasinda Wilder, Falling into You
No wonder being a real Christian isn't popular. Who wants to suffer so they can find joy?" ~ Dianne Simmons
— Michelle Sutton, Letting Go
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.
— Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star
Love isn't really all that terrifying once you let go of your doubts.
— Debbie Macomber
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.
— Peter Rollins, The Idolatry of God: Breaking the Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it."You're absolved," I tell him.He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.So I put it in his language. "You're free.
— Hannah Moskowitz
He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.
— Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
...Love is easy, falling in love is even easier, but letting that love go, is the most difficult thing you’ll ever have to do. Some of us never let it go andsometimes it takes a while to realize what you want. But your heart will always have the right answer in the end. You just have to figure out what it’stelling you.
— Marie Coulson, Bound Together
I love you, and I want you to be happy, I want you to have the life you deserve. And if that means … if that means I have to stand here and watch you walk away, then I’ll do it. I won’t be happy about it. It’ll break my heart. But … if that’s what you really need, then we’re done.
— Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia
Seize the day, then let it go.
— Marty Rubin
I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground
If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying.
— Donna Lynn Hope
People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Falling in love is easy, letting that love go, is hard. But your heart will always have the right answer. You just have to listen to it and figure out what it’s telling you
— Marie Coulson, Bound Together
I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having.
— Donna Lynn Hope
If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
— Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.
— Elizabeth Berg, Never Change
I've realized that, sometimes, you have to let people go. But I'm really glad I have someone to hold on to.
— Alex Finn
Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.
— Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special
Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift.	She opened her eyes to see the pearls. She picked one up, but dropped it. It rolled down the hill upon which she was sitting and into the river. The student chased after it and looked all afternoon, diving, coming up for air, diving back down.	“Sophia,” he asked. “Could you show me where it went in? I can’t find it.”	“Right there,” she said throwing the other pearl in the river.
— David W. Jones, For the Love of Sophia: Wisdom Stories from Around the World and Across the Ages
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.
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
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
— Chris Manby, Getting Personal
If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the glorious Christ-built beauty of a set-apart young woman, this is where it all begins. Denying self, taking up your cross, and following the Lamb wherever He leads. In other words, letting go of all preoccupation with self: our comfort, our pleasure, our agenda, our popularity, our ability to gain the world's approval, even our own dreams and desires. And, as Paul did, treating all those things as rubbish for the excellence of the knowledge of Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings (Philippians 3:7-9).
— Leslie Ludy
When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.
— Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
She's finding it hard to cope - her hopes have been dashed, the future she dreamed about has gone and she's scared about that. There's nothing in its place. She wants you back. She doesn't want to let go of everything it meant to her. Because the world seems horribly big and empty. Because the future is a very frightening concept when you'd previously planned on sharing it with someone. Because she's a girl, she's a romantic and she fears if she lets  go of her dream, she'll live a nightmare. Because she has a hope and she fears if she lets her hope go, who will she be?The effort, the pain of clinging on is preferable to the wide-open fear of letting go.
— Freya North, Chances
Our need to control eventually works against us b/c we start to repress what we truly feel, need and want. God is in control so trust in that more than yourself!
— Michael Barbarulo
I didn’t treat my girl like she was mineYeah, I thought I didn’t need her at the timeBut I changed my way of thinkin’ when she leftYeah, I finally learned my lesson, but I learned it by myself
— Hunter Hayes
The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.
— Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.
— Nick Hornby
Think differently, BE better!
— Darren L. Johnson
I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
— Ernest Hemingway
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.
— Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board
— Philippe Riès
[Al-Qaeda's supporters] are aware of the cracks in the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their own hands
— Osama bin Laden
Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.
— Nicole Fende, How to be a Finance Rock Star