Lisa Unger Quotes

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.

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

How well we have learned to let go

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.

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!

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.

At some point, we all have to let go.

When it seems impossible that a deep connection with another person could just go away instead of changing form. It seems impossible that you will one day look up and say the words "I used to date someone who lived in that building," referring to a three-year relationship. As simple as if it was a pizza place that is now a dry cleaner's. It happens. Keep walking.

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

He's got to let go of you sometime.

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

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

I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

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?

There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?

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

You don't have to give up to let go

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

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything