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Letting Go Isn't Easy But I Need To Do This For Me

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's the difficult part. 
Bianca Sparacino
July 4, 2016
“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 years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
— Beryl Markham, West with the Night
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“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 choices or yours. When you finally recognize that truth then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others. From this point you will finally be free.”
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“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, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“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, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“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, You’re Allowed To Leave
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“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 into new stages and phases and no two ever look exactly the same.

At the end of the day, ‘moving on’ is a simple measure of one thing – when you’re happy again without your ex.”
— Heidi Priebe, Moving On Doesn’t Always Mean Finding A New Relationship
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“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 makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t coma back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain. Damn, there’s nothing like that, is there? I’ve been there and you have too. You’re nodding your head.”
— Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“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 sale and you don’t buy it. You let them go again when you’re cleaning your bathroom and have to throw out the bottle of the body wash that smells like them. You let them go that night at the bar when you go home with somebody else or you let them go every year on the anniversary of the day you lost them. Sometimes you’re going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there’s nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human. And it isn’t always as simple as making one decision and never looking back.”
— Heidi Priebe, Read This If You Feel Like It’s Taking You Too Long To Move On
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“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, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!:: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“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, A quote from Melbourne
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“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 courage to let go of the things that are not meant for us.”
— Kovie Biakolo, You Have To Let Go Of The Things That Aren’t Meant For You
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“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, You Won’t Always Miss Him, I Promise
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“There may come a day when they fall out of love with you. Do not let this be the day you fall out of love with you. How long they choose to stay will never be your decision, but how you choose to rise is.”
— Bianca Sparacino (@rainbowsalt), To Rise