“Maybe your journey is not about finding love, maybe it’s about loving yourself. Maybe it’s about rebuilding yourself or maybe it’s about walking away. Walking away from it all, from what you used to know, from who you used to be and going in another direction where better things await”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Maybe your journey now is about changing your own life. Maybe it’s not about attachment, maybe it’s about letting go.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Disappointment is coming, for sure! People are going to hurt you in ways you would never have believed even possible. You are going to be let-down and deeply betrayed. And there is only one thing to do when you are tragically let down — let-go. No matter how wrong they were, holding on will not make…”— Bryant McGill, bryantmcgill.tumblr.com
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is…”— Mary Manin Morrissey, amazon.com
“You cannot understand life and its mysteries as long as you try to grasp it. Indeed, you cannot grasp it, just as you cannot walk off with a river in a bucket. If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“know that I knew how much you loved me. when life was sweet and when life was dark. When you told me, and even when you didn't. When it was easy and when it was hard. I knew. Every minute of every day. I knew.”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.com
“You need to let me go… You need to let me let you go.”— Sheila Callaghan, Fiona Gallagher, Emmy Rossum, imdb.com
“But you're neither friend nor foe Though I can't seem to let you go. The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down.”— Sara Bareilles, open.spotify.com
“Don’t wonder why they left let them wonder why you never asked Don’t wonder why they stopped caring let them wonder why you never cared to know”— Rania Naim, gumroad.com
“Cause you only need the light when it's burning low. Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. Only know you love her when you let her go. Only know you've been high when you're feeling low. Only hate the road when you're missing home. Only know you love her when you let her go”— Passenger, open.spotify.com
“You're the one that I love and I'm saying goodbye.”— A Great Big World, Christina Aguilera, open.spotify.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Where are you now? What have you found? Where is your heart, when I'm not around? Where are you now, you gotta let me know? Oh baby, so I can let you go.”— Britney Spears, play.spotify.com
“There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“The little voice that's telling you the story of your life, has to let go of the old chapters to genuinely write new ones.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“With you or without you I have so much living left to do.”— Anonymous, somewhat-bulletproof.tumblr.com
“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com