Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

When I was a senior in high school, I was playing in this local band in our town, and I really wanted to be a musician for a living, and it didn’t look like that...

But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

When you hate something, you chain yourself to it.

It’s painful and it’s messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

I am undecided.” When other people get involved it sends mixed signals. If only more people would be so bold, hearts would not linger so long.

Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a point at which you finally decide to let go.

It’s me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God’s values, but trust, surrender? Letting go,...

Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.

Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.

Sometimes people are so genuinely themselves they aren’t conscious of the fact they have wronged you; sometimes you shouldn’t care enough to bring it to their attention.

Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?

It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.

If I learned anything in this life, I’ve learned that you can’t cling on.

Our need to control eventually works against us b/c we start to repress what we truly feel, need and want. God is in control so trust in that more than yourself!

…we’ve let go of so many things, but never each other’s hand …

I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you...

The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you’re in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don’t control.

When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.

It could be the sound of each name he knows/curling to ash in his chest’s aortic furnace one after another, year after year instructing him/in the patient work of letting go. Even still/there are things...

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...

I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality.

Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it’s gone for good.

I don’t like songs about wanting things. I like songs about letting go, saying goodbye.

Don’t pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

What you do with your heartbreak is yours, never feel the need to explain to people why things ended the way it did; it’s not for the world to own.

Hold tight!” And �I did, gripping the string with all my might as the kite danced high up above, gleaming bright whiteagainst the blue sky, its ribbons sparkling in the sunlight as it flew, soaring...

Laying down what we want to protect or are afraid of losing or are terrified we will never have is not the same thing as losing those things. It is surrendering them. It is opening...

You can’t move forward if you’re still hanging on.

A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.

Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be...

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.

The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.

Control is something we all strive for—but you will find, as you become more experienced with magic, that you gain more control over yourself by releasing your need to control life.

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.

Sometimes we scratch, claw and climb so hard to conquer a mountain that, once achieved, we cling to its summit much too long and it ultimately instigates our fall. As we dangle by our fingertips...

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

Let go with love.

What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there’s nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how...

The rose has toldIn one simplicityThat never lifeRelinquishes a bloomBut to bestowAn ancient confidence.

I miss your smile… but I miss mine more.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won’t need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

Letting yesterday affect today will only destroy the excitement of tomorrow.

It just happens that a lot of us have been through too much that is even too less than our age..and what happens is we cannot but remember it and all we think about is...

Letting go is to love yourself enough to look at the past with a different perspective. It is to accept that you can’t change the past, but that you can change whether your perspective poisons...

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.