Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one.

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she’d never thought of, to show...

Letting go looks different for everyone, I think. Sometimes it’s as simple as waking up one day and deciding not to let your past rule you. Other times it’s a process; slow moving and painful,...

The bottom line is this; when one person stops being a part of your life, another one will come, and fill that empty space. Leave the ones who left in the past, right where they...

I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward

he had kidded with us that if we didn’t let go at the proper moment, he would slap our hands with a stick, and we had all laughed because who would be silly enough to...

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes...

I didn’t know how to let you go.

You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.

Learning to be a Life- Giving Mom without regrets requires embracing the season you are in. You have to let go of the past and live in the present as you lay hold of the...

Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your...

because some thingssometimesaren’t ours to hold,but just beautiful to listen to.

If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

real love” you will ever experience.

Note the lessons a broken heart has taught you but don’t ever alter the love you can give. Don’t let a broken heart hinder your kind of love.

[W]hen you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it. Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

I don’t need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me,...

Pag mahal mo ang isang tao, palayain mo. Kapag bumalik siya, ibig sabihin wala siyang pamasahe.

One of my greatest lessons of growth was to stop dwelling in the past and forgive myself and others from all the pain and hurt that was caused. When I finally let go and released,...

Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever’s in charge of it.

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.