“Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”— 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
“An EX should stay an EX. They’re an Example of false love and an Explanation of why you deserve better.”— Unknown, chobirdokan.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
“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
“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
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”— Joel Osteen, amazon.com
“Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com
“Don’t be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You are deeply missable. However, the only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.com
“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”— James Patterson, amazon.com
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now ha…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Yes we will leave here without a trace Take a new name and an old shape I'll be no outlaw, no renegade Just your faithful god of loss”— Darlingside, youtube.com
“We’ve all done the worst kind of things just to stay alive. But we can still come back. We’re not too far gone.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, o…”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“It’s hard to recognize that life isn’t a holding action, but a process. It’s hard to learn that we don’t leave the best parts of ourselves behind, back in the dugout or the office. We own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives. And when we exit, we can…”— Ellen Goodman, seattletimes.com
“There’s a trick to the ‘graceful exit.’ It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit l…”— Ellen Goodman, seattletimes.com