Shirley MacLaine Quotes

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

If you love someone, set them free.

When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.

If you really love someone, you can't be angry if they don't love you the same way. You got to just love them because you love them, not because you're expecting anything back in return.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

If you love somebody, set them free.

let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love

I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

Love without attachment is light.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Acceptance is the key to be truly free.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison.

You don't have to give up to let go