Paulo Coelho Quotes

I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.

I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day.

At some point, we all have to let go.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with.

I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going.

Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

I've had no contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.

I think when a relationship doesn't work in your life, it doesn't mean that your life is over.

Sometimes you have to think about letting people move on.

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.