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Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.
It’s time to forgive yourself for the people who walked away. For the ones who didn’t fight, for the ones who made you feel like you were not worthy of being loved the way you loved others. It’s time to forgive yourself for the way in which you trusted, the way in which you let them leave fingerprin…
I choose forgiveness because I deserve to heal.
I think I’ve forgiven people that haven’t deserved it. But I’m okay with that. I’m okay with that because my heart doesn’t hurt any longer. Because there’s no bitterness hidden deep in my chest. Because pain is only temporary, and I have chosen happiness. Because forgiveness taught me that I am stro…
I learned to love forgiveness. I learned that granting it gave me healing, that asking for it gave me humility and strength. I learned that we are all sinners, all a little broken, all looking for something to help us back on our feet again, all looking for someone to say that we’re doing alright, j…
Forgiveness has always felt like the most beautiful second chance. Like the answer to a prayer you didn’t know you were asking. Like freedom in a way you never imagined. Like a burden finally lifted from your tired shoulders.
Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.
no one knows me better than she, but now, all at once, it feels as though there is no one who knows me at all
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be held onto. Clinging to people and experiences that were never ours in the first place is what causes us to miss out on…
He'll stare at the house for a long time, not remembering / the aftertaste of ice-cube tray popsicles, / searching for something he can call his. He'll have to drive away, like he always does-- / because your'e gone, and you've been gone, / and anyway, he was wrong about the color of your eyes.
Healing doesn’t mean that the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.
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.
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.
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.
If I could just breathe, All I need to do Is simply exhale And let go of you.
For now, though, he'd just have to add her name to the list of people he cared about who'd moved on. It was getting to be a long list, and it contained some pretty important names. In time, he thought, Aimee would probably seem like a footnote, but just now her absence felt bigger than that, like ma…