“Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life. Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they're blessings or lessons.”— Roy T. Bennett, amazon.com
“There is a moment in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“...love your solitude and bear the pain it causes you with melody wrought with lament. For the people who are close to you, you tell me, are far away, and that shows that you are beginning to create a wider space around you...take pleasure in your growth, which no one can accompany you, and be kind-…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me — only I couldn't.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves and then we have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos”— Charles M. Schulz, Snoopy, amazon.com
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don’t notice when they drop of your world.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.”— Peter Heller, amazon.com