Quotes about Release

The pain in my body could not match the pain her cry surfaced in my heart. They cleaned her, weighed her, wrapped her, and whisked her away. And it was then that I realized the much-greater pain is not in giving birth but in releasing your own child.

Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Lay em down, Sethe. Sword and shield. Down. Down. Both of em down. Down by the riverside. Sword and shield. Don't study war no more. Lay all that mess down. Sword and shield.

Lay em down, Sethe. Sword and shield. Down. Down. Both of em down. Down by the riverside. Sword and shield. Don't study war no more,. Lay all that mess down.

Here is the secret to your life as a kingdom woman of excellence: a short memory coupled with a clear direction. If you are going to live in excellence, you have to forget yesterday. Whether it was good, bad, or ugly, if it's yesterday, you need to let it go. When you carry yesterday further than you ought to, you ruin today. If you ruin today, then you spoil tomorrow.

When you hang on to the weight of yesterday, it will hinder the progress to tomorrow.

Forgiveness is first and foremost a decision. It doesn't begin with an emotion. It is not contingent on how you feel

There is no prison so secure that love cannot free you. There is no captor so strong that love cannot liberate you. There is no sin so terrible that love cannot restore you.

Forgiveness inspires a decree from the King, which in turn gives us authority to command these evil spirits to release their prisoner.

from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?

Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings