One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.

Riding high and above the waves on extemporaneous notions of an afterlife, Michael brought one foot forward and let it dangle over the roof’s edge. He knew that he did not have much time before...

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I...

Chuang-tzu once told a story about two persons who both lost a sheep. One person got very depressed and lost himself in drinking, sex, and gambling to try to forget this misfortune. The other person...

Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it

Sure all life’s highways at some point must end, so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive when the pavement runs out…And hopefully leave behind artistically that which may...

Perhaps it’s human nature: We want to shield our children from pain, and what we get instead is life and heartache and lessons that bring us to our knees. Sooner or later we are handed...

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

Have you ever wondered why we bury and cremate our dead? Nothing to do with hygiene, it’s just so we don’t have to see the reality of death. You know, the Zoroastrians used to leave...

I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it.”You’re absolved,” I tell him.He brings his eyes back up to mine. There’s no fucking way he knows what...

I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?

When I say I’m going to forget you I know it’s impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I’m...

But I don’t blame you anymore, that’s too much pain to store…it left me half dead…inside my head. And boy looking back I see I’m not the girl I used to be. When I lost...

Letting go means accepting the fact that there are things not just for you!

There’s no point in arguing and loving someone who doesn’t want to be with you and doesn’t want to keep you in his life.. the real person will try harder to reach out and work...

We’re all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn’t value it.

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on.

She’s not going to let go until she sees for herself that there’s nothing left to hold on to.

I don’t understand women that call themselves a “bitch”. It doesn’t empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you...

Il ne savait pas encore s’il souffrait parce qu’il suivait une pente et que l’avenir venait à lui sans qu’il eût à s’en saisir. Quand on s’abandonne on ne souffre pas. Quand on s’abandonne même...

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if...

I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the reins of control over to them. Forgiving was not about accepting...

The difference between me and the trees is that the trees let go of their leaves. I keep holding onto mine. The trees make room for new life. I don’t.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt...

‎All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for.

Sometimes people graduate but they don’t leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

I don’t know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It’s as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn’t include me anymore….

There is always someone who cares for us and loves us. We may not always be aware of that yet we are very much needed and truly loved by the Universe. Everything that exists is...

Life is full of bullshit; reject or deal with it, but move on.

From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the ‘could’ve’ and ‘should’ve,’ to the dead friendships you still hang on to… Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or...

Let It Be” lyrics by Paul McCartney

You don’t need to hold them, Just let them choose if they want to stay or be free.You’re not a rope,You’re a magnet.

What if you could pick one day of your life, and everything would stop changing, every day would be similar and comparable to that one day, you’d always have the same people with you? If...

It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it’s time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving...

Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Perhaps our dreams are there to be broken, and our plans are there to crumble, and our tomorrows are there to dissolve into todays, and perhaps all of this is all a giant invitation to...

The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in...

No matter what, we have to keep moving forward, even if we have to crawl.

Yet he hadn’t asked for anything that he hadn’t been willing to give himself. – Mahri

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

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...

Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.

True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.