“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.’”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, mentalhealthdaily.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
“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
“Hoping against hope is what I choose to do because, dear lover, it is not easy to let go of somebody as precious as you.”— Peshla Kumar, thoughtcatalog.com
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.com
“Who breaks the thread - the one who pulls or the one who holds on?”— James Richardson, goodreads.com