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14 Quotes To Help You Let Go Of Every Bad Thing This Year

14 Quotes To Help You Let Go Of Every Bad Thing This Year

Avoid being left behind - keep moving.

The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that.

— Scorpius Malfoy, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition): The Official Script Book of the Original West End Production

World Change Making A Difference

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To live in this world you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

— Mary Oliver, Wild Geese: Selected Poems

Letting Go life advice

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We can stick anything into the fog
and make it look like a ghost
but tonight
let us not become tragedies.
We are not funeral homes
with propane tanks in our windows,
lookin’ like cemeteries.
Cemeteries are just the Earth’s way of not letting go.
Let go.

— Buddy Wakefield, We Were Emergencies

Poetry Memories Pain Letting Go

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Sometimes the kindest thing to do is to let people go.

— Leanne Taylor, Orange Is The New Black: "Season 3, Episode 09"

OITNB Letting Go Break Up Moving On

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The little voice that's telling you the story of your life, has to let go of the old chapters to genuinely write new ones.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Life Living Life Story Moving On Moving Forward Letting Go

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If you’re brave enough to say ‘goodbye,’ life will reward you with a new ‘hello.’

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

Finding Love Love Again Letting Go Break Up

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The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.

— Jojo Moyes, After You: A Novel

Future Moving Forward Effort

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If you lose someone but find yourself, you won.

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

Identity Letting Go Break Up

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You don’t need someone else to forgive you. YOU need to forgive you.

— Sade Andria Zabala, 27 Ways I Survived 2016

Internalized Guilt Past Healing forgiveness Moving Forward Self love

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How we so fear change, shifting numbers,
so cling to old money, archaic language,
worn-out tendencies and muddled colonies,
that we stall and maw, hem and haw,
defend Old Glory like she's more than
fabric running with the combination of wars.

— Leah Angstman, The Proposal Of The 51-Starred Flag

Flag America War Change Colonization

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There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

— David Levithan, Every Day

Questions Answers Letting Go

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Watching the news will always make you feel like the world is ending. The world isn’t ending. The world is changing.

— Adam Gnade, The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad

News Media Change Depression War Perspective

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What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

— Donald Trump, via Twitter

Change Life Success

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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Resilience Literature Life Learning Experience

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