“I’m still broken, I know, but I don’t let that define me anymore.”— passionatelypsycho, passionatelypsycho.tumblr.com
“I wish Not to wish anymore. For what is fleeting with its worth Is not worthy any more Than what I could be appreciating Now and working for. What is here now, in front of me Not what I cannot see. As for you, I will let it be.”— L.Y.S.S., 66.media.tumblr.com
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“You are broken, and it’s okay to be broken right now. You can’t rush your healing, and that’s fine. But you need to know that this feeling won’t last. You need to know that just because you’re hurting doesn’t mean you can’t get back up again, doesn’t mean you’re weak.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“In the end, our paths are rarely straight and narrow, and they were never meant to be anyway. And if all we do in each one is learn a lesson, or meet a friend, or know ourselves better, or do something kind for someone, we have gained much more than we have lost. But first, first we must have the co…”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“You can meet someone who’s just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just accept it and move on.”— Winna Efendi, goodreads.com
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”— Ann Landers, amazon.com
“If there’s anything I wish we could talk more about it’s the in-between stages of letting someone go. Because nobody lets go in an instant. You let go once. And then you let go again. And then again and again and again. You let someone go at the grocery store when their favorite type of soup is on s…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it…”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“The truth about moving on is that it just doesn’t look the same to all of us. For some people, it means falling madly in love with someone else. For others it means building an independent life in which their happiness is only their own. There are a thousand different ways to push our lives forwards…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in. You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“We can't really affect the circumstances on what does happen to us, but we can affect how we respond to it. And I thought that it was important for us to be able to forgive and to move on. Because if we devolve with it, you can imagine the anger and hurt that you continue to have.”— Vivian Stringer, amazon.com
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”— Shannon L. Alder, amazon.com
“Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choic…”— Shannon L. Alder, amazon.com
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed…”— Beryl Markham, amazon.com
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”— Joseph Campbell, amazon.com
“And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain. Don't carry the world upon your shoulders. For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.”— The Beatles, amazon.com
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what'. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com