“I found myself in my friendships. Mindless chatter, heartfelt conversations, clinking mimosa glasses, and trips down memory lane. I was emboldened by the women who encourage me to be brave. To be unapologetically me.”— Katie Ray, thoughtcatalog.com
“I found myself in the letting go. Saying ‘yes’ when I was intimidated but intrigued and ‘no’ when I was uninspired. In toasts to strangers, to friends, to a hell of a good time. I let go of control and dared to get lost with no rush back to normalcy. I was led astray and too trusting of some, but I…”— Katie Ray, thoughtcatalog.com
“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I’ll know that our chapters lived on separate pages for a while but the ink was always pressed together, was always permanent, that in the end we'd come back together.”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Today I will not count the days till I see you next, I will not imagine the ways I could get to you, I will not curse the miles and hours between us. I will not curse myself for making this decision, for choosing my dreams, for knowing we'll be okay. Today I will trust our love, I will trust that wh…”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“Today I will not let my body feel heavy, incomplete, empty, as if it's missing a vital part. Today I promise I'll try to live without you, today I will not fight the urge to run to you.”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I can't handle all this pain All we ever do is fight anyway Why we even tried I haven't a clue With hearts involved there's way too much to loose”— Miranda Lambert
“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”— John Green, amazon.com
“You tilt your head back. You breathe. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. And you teach your sons and daughters there are sharks in the water. But the only way to survive is to breathe deep and dive.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“I won’t let my scars keep me from living openly and spontaneously. It’ll just take some time to get there, and that’s okay.”— Kristin Addis, amazon.com
“Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a fl…”— Jack Kornfield, amazon.com
“Healing doesn’t mean that the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.”— mentalmentalhealth, tmblr.co
“Healing may not be so much about getting better as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.”— Rachel Naomi Remen, amazon.com
“When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.”— Jack Kornfield, amazon.com
“Soon, those who hurt us will fade out of existence. And we will be left with nothing but memories, scars and broken promises. We can either let these go and start anew or thread on familiar water and get drowned over and over again.”— The Carcoleptic, thecarcoleptic.tumblr.com
“Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that…”— Jack Kornfield, amazon.com
“We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.”— Yasmin Mogahed, facebook.com
“It's hard to let go of anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”— Madeline L’Engle, amazon.com
“With you or without you I have so much living left to do.”— 10000 miles away, somewhat-bulletproof.tumblr.com