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It Hurt To Let Go But It Hurt More Holding On To Something That Wasn't There Anymore

I had to learn to say goodbye to the person who gave me courage to say hello.
Kirsten Corley
December 14, 2016
“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
“One day, whether you 
 are 14, 28 
 or 65 

you will stumble upon 
someone who will start 
a fire in you that cannot die. 

However, the saddest, 
 most awful truth 
 you will ever come to find–– 

 is they are not always 
with whom we spend our lives.”
— Beau Taplin, The Awful Truth
Tagged: Love, Relationships, The One, Falling In Love, Timing, Letting Go
“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
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”
— Guy Finley, The Secret Of Letting Go
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“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
“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.”
— Madeline L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Lightt
Tagged: Letting Go, Let Go, Learning To Let Go
“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
— Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“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
“I found myself in the letting go. Saying ‘yes’ when I was intimidated but intrigued and ‘no’ when I was uninspired. In toasts to strangers, to friends, to a hell of a good time. I let go of control and dared to get lost with no rush back to normalcy. I was led astray and too trusting of some, but I learned my own limits. I discovered my own worth.”
— Katie Ray, I Found Myself In Letting Go
Tagged: Letting Go, Finding Myself, After A Break Up, Post Break Up
“I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.”
— Haley James Scott, One Tree Hill
Tagged: One Tree Hill, Love, Give it up, Letting Go
“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
“Parts of me wanted to ask you to stay. To keep fighting for me. To fight for us. But a certain ideology impeded me from doing so. The idea that when someone loves you enough, they will stay on their own, without you asking them to.”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak
“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form.”
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Tagged: Fall Out Of Love, Heartbreak, Lost Love
“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
“Conflicts between your heart and head appear like a boxing match. To walk away from someone who consumes so much of your heart, you can’t bear the thought of it. But, then in your head you remind yourself, it is for the best you leave now.”
— Kirsten Corley, The Pain And Joy Of Letting Go Of An Almost Relationship
Tagged: Almost Relationship, Almost Love, Toxic Half, goodbye
“and the loudest screams are not the ones that you hear the loudest screams never leave our mouths”
— M. Ocean, Let Her Go
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Goodbye Without The Word
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves, grows you, or makes you happy. ”
— Robert Tew, Robert Tew Quotes
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward, Breakups
“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”
— Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On, Moving Forward
“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
“Letting go of someone you loved wasn't hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn't let them go they were still gone.”
— Lauren Kate, Waterfall (Teardrop)
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“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 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
“Sometimes the kindest thing to do is to let people go.”
— Leanne Taylor, Orange Is The New Black: "Season 3, Episode 09"
Tagged: OITNB, Letting Go, Break Up, Moving On
“Some of us think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.”
— Hermann Hesse, Wild Awakening: 9 Questions That Saved My Life
Tagged: Tough Love, Letting Go, Holding On
“No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming. hearing lies, saying sorry and hurting.”
— Unknown, Tired Of Getting Hurt Quotes
Tagged: Heartbreak, Relationships, Love
“The truth is if you reach a point where letting go is the only option, it usually means that this thing or someone already let you go. You are trying to stay in a place where you are not welcome anymore.”
— Rania Naim, The Art Of Letting Go
Tagged: Letting Go, Fate, Destiny
“I always wondered why it was so easy For people to leave. 
What I should have questioned was 'Why I wanted so badly for them to stay.'”
— Samantha King, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel
Tagged: Sad, Heartbreak, goodbye
“I read somewhere that it’s okay to miss people even if you don’t want them in your life anymore; and I hope that’s true. I hope everything I feel is okay.”
— Trista Mateer, Honeybee: a collection of poems about letting go
Tagged: Missing People, Nostalgia, Heartbreak
“ I had this fantasy, that I would look across the tables and I'd see you there, with a wife and maybe a couple of kids. You wouldn't say anything to me, nor me to you. But we'd both know that you'd made it, that you were happy. I never wanted you to come back to Gotham. I always knew there was nothing here for you, except pain and tragedy. And I wanted something more for you than that. I still do.”
— Alfred, The Dark Knight
Tagged: The Dark Knight, Batman