Michael Morpurgo Quotes

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

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

At some point, we all have to let go.

Until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything.

How well we have learned to let go

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

If you try to hold on to something you don't have anymore, you can't be happy in the moment.

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

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

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

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.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

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.

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

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.

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

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.