Quotes About Letting Go Of People Who Hurt You

#1. When you're hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.

Stevie Nicks

#2. In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the "excuses" and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.

Yvonne Pierre

#3. If I didnt have her I dont know what I would have. Well, yes I do. You wouldnt need a box to put it in, neither.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

Aaron Stanford

#5. My blood runs cold when she says his name... his last name... the name those people use for him. This isn't right. She doesn't know him. They don't know each other. They can't. "I'm not going to hurt her, Carmela, but I'm not letting her go.

J.M. Darhower

#6. We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it.

Camron Wright

#7. The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

James Hansen

#8. Sometimes we make a mistake that can never be undone. We hurt people we never intend to hurt, and it isn't until years later we realize that although we hurt them, letting them go was the kindest thing we could have done.

Stevie J. Cole

#9. Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

Cathy Kelly

#10. How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

David Hockney

#11. It's not letting your anger out that gets people hurt. Its keeping the anger locked up in side that hurts you.

Jack Kirby

#12. In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.

Amy Poehler

#13. I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

George R R Martin

#14. Word like that, others' opinions of you, shouldn't have that kind of power, Saint. But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people's words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought.

Jay Crownover

#15. Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.

Lee Strobel

#16. Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit ...

Stella Gibbons

#17. Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

Rumi

#18. When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

Taylor Swift

#19. I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

Joseph Murray

#20. When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside; we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.

Frederick Buechner

#21. Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

Goldie Hawn

#22. You can't protect him from being hurt, babe, no mattter what you do. Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt...it's all a part of being in love.

Jenny Han

#23. Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

Ann Aguirre

#24. When you lose someone important, not everything makes sense. Being angry was easier than being hurt. Being alone was easier than letting people get too close.

Audrey Bell

#25. When my legs hurt, I say: Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!

Jens Voigt

#26. Drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

Terry Pratchett

#27. The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, "Lord, teach us to preach"; "Lord, teach us to do miracles"; or "Lord, teach us to be wise" ... but they said, "Lord, teach us to pray.

Billy Graham

#28. I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race.

Mary Gaitskill

#29. The happiest people are the one who have mastered life's hardest lesson. They've learned how to let go,

Romina Russell