Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

At some point, we all have to let go.

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.

But what is past my help is past my care.

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

Sometimes you have to think about letting people move on.

You don't have to give up to let go

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

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

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

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

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.

We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

He's got to let go of you sometime.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

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

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

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

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

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.