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27 Quotes: This Is Me Learning To Let Go

Some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Kirsten Corley
September 2, 2016
“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 maybe she deserved a whole page to herself.”
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Tagged: Absence, Let Go, Letting Go, Memory, Rapture
“While saying goodbye does mean accepting that a part of our life is now over, it also provides us with a chance to realize just how blessed our lives have been.To look back and reflect on the journeys we’ve shared with some wonderful people, while being exposed to amazing and invaluable experiences we often take for granted.”
— Craig James Ruvere, If It’s Hard to Say Goodbye, Your Life’s Been Truly Blessed
Tagged: Goodbyes, Letting Go, Blessings
“Remember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and you'll continue to be art even when he's gone.”
— Charlotte Geier, via Tumblr
Tagged: After Him, After Love, Moving On, Letting Go, You Are Art, Self-Love
“When your past calls, don’t answer. It has nothing new to say.”
— Anonymous, The Artidote
Tagged: Past, Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward, Life
“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Letting Go, Change, Starting Over, Consequence, Blame, Empowering, Self-Direction, Fate
“This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go.”
— Buddy Wakefield, Hurling Crowbirds At Mockingbars (Hope Is Not A Course Of Action)
Tagged: Apology, Letting Go, forgiveness, Redemption
“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
“I’m still broken, I know, but I don’t let that define me anymore.”
— passionatelypsycho, via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Brokenness, Leaving The Past Behind
“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, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Tagged: Letting Go, Letting Things Be, Moving On
“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Tagged: True Love, selflessness, Painful, Letting Go, Moving On, Best Of Sparks
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
Tagged: goodbye, Thank You, Endings, Letting Go
“And in the end, she left a scar and I knew that was how she wanted to be remembered. She wanted to leave her mark in the world without getting her heart too attached to it.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: In The End, Relationships, Love, Letting Go, Moving On
“and in the end, letting
go was a lot like finding
love. i had to learn to
say goodbye to the one
who gave me the courage
to say hello.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Letting Go, Relationships, Courage When Things Go Wrong, Hello And Goodbye
“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.”
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, goodbye, Relationships Ending
“do not bother holding onto
that thing that does not want you

-you cannot make it stay”
— rupi, milk and honey
Tagged: Staying, Letting Go, Relationships, Love, goodbye
“She’s ruined half of my music library for me.”
— Annoymous, 22 One-Sentence Stories That Will Emotionally Charge Your Marketing
Tagged: One Sentence Stories, Heartbreak, Pain, Letting Go
“Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel
Somethin' that it won't”
— Adele, 25
Tagged: Love Again, Forcing Relationships, Letting Go
“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over. I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the same way again.”
— Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Breakups
“She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.”
— Susane Colasanti,, Take Me There
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed a tear, turn around and look for the new door that's opened. It's a sign that you're no longer that person you were, it's time to change into who you are. It's going to be okay.”
— Lee Goff, A Wrath Like Thunder (Volume 2)
Tagged: Dating, Letting Go, Moving On
“You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.”
— Charles Bukovski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy.

It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.”
— Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward
“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward
“Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave. And thank God for it. Your problem is, you just can't let this one go. It's over.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.”
— Shannon Alder, Fanpage
Tagged: Letting Go, Love, Moving On
“If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
— Shannon Alder, Fanpage
Tagged: Leaving, Letting Go, Moving On
“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Love, Set Free, Letting Go