1. In life youll realize there is a purpose for everyone you meet.

Some will test you, some

will use you, and some will teach you. But most importantly, some will bring out the best
in you.

2. Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, enhance you,
and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go.

3. Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. Its about being with a
person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.

4. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring all of which have the potential to
turn a life around.

5. The most beautiful thing is to see a person you love smiling. And even more beautiful is
knowing that you are the reason behind it.

6. Choose your relationships wisely. Its better to be alone than to be in bad company.

7. Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are
alone.

8. Fall in love when youre ready, not when youre lonely.

9. Love means giving someone the chance to hurt you, but trusting them not to.

10. You know youve found true love when you catch yourself falling in love with the same
person over and over again.

11. Dont wait for the right person to come into your life. Rather, be the right person to come
to someones life.

12. The one who is meant for you encourages you to be your best, but still loves and accepts
you at your worst.

13. Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

14. Some relationships are like glass. Its better to leave it broken, than to hurt yourself more
by trying to put it back together.

15. Just because one person doesnt seem to care for you, doesnt mean you should forget
about everyone else who does.

16. Someone else doesnt have to be wrong for you to be right.

17. It is okay to be angry. It is never okay to be cruel.

18. Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

19. Silence is often the loudest cry. Pay attention to those you care about.

20. We dont always need advice. Sometimes all we need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen,
and a heart to understand.

21. Its not so much what you say that counts, it how you make people feel.

22. A silent hug means a thousand words to the unhappy heart.

23. Dont mess with someones feelings just because youre unsure of yours.

24. True happiness comes from within, not from someone else. Dont make the mistake of
waiting on someone or something to come along and make you happy.

25. Dont choose the one who is beautiful to the world, choose the one who makes your
world beautiful.

26. If you feel like your ship is sinking, it might be a good time to throw out the stuff thats
been weighing it down. Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with
those who bring out the best in you.

27. Just because it didnt last forever, doesnt mean it wasnt worth your while.

28. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Dont expect others to read your mind,
and dont play games with their heads and hearts. Dont tell half-truths and expect
people to trust you when the full truth comes out. Half-truths are no better than lies. And
dont ignore someone you care about, because lack of concern hurts more than angry
words.

29. Lies help no one in the long run. So 1) Dont say I love you if you dont mean it. 2)
Dont say I understand if you have no clue. 3) Dont say Im sorry if youre not. 4) Be
honest with yourself and your loved ones.

30. Tell the truth, or eventually someone will tell it for you.

31. Good relationships dont just happen; they take time, patience and two people who truly
want to work to be together.
32. Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.

33. Love doesnt hurt. Lying, cheating and screwing with peoples feelings and emotions
hurts.

34. When it comes to relationships, remaining faithful is never an option but a priority. Loyalty
is everything.

35. A great relationship is about two things: First, appreciating the similarities, and second,
respecting the differences.

36. Jealousy is the art of counting someone else blessings instead of your own. Dont waste
your time on jealousy. The only person youre competing against is yourself.

37. Do not become possessive. The purpose of a relationship is to complement each other,
grow together, and achieve your common goals as a couple. At the same time, you
must each maintain your individual identity as a human being.

38. Dont ever change just to impress someone. Change because it makes you a better
person and leads you to a better future.

39. Give, but dont allow yourself to be used. Listen to others, but dont lose your own voice.

40. Dont look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face
them with you.

41. You dont really need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept
you completely.

42. Speak when you are very angry, and youll make the best speech youll ever regret.

43. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Let it go.

44. As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more
important to have real ones.

45. Your job wont take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

46. Respect is earned, honesty is appreciated, trust is gained, and loyalty is returned.

47. Never waste a moment, it may be the last with someone you love.

48. If you love someone, tell them. Forget about the rules or the fear of looking ridiculous.
What is really ridiculous is passing up on an opportunity to tell someone that your heart is
invested in them.

49. Nobody gets through life without losing someone they love, someone they need, or
something they thought was meant to be. But it is these losses that make us stronger and
eventually move us toward future opportunities.

50. Never stop doing little things for others. Sometimes those little things occupy the biggest
part of their hearts.


51. A real person is not perfect, and a perfect person is not real.
52. To the world, you might be just one person. But to one person, you might be the world.

53. Just because you have a past with someone, doesnt mean you should have a future
with them.

54. No relationship is a waste of time. The wrong ones teach you the lessons that prepare
you for the right ones.

55. The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to move
forward is the happiest.

56. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldnt be in it.

57. Characterize people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words.

58. When the pain of holding on is worse than the pain of letting go, it is time to let go.

59. If a friend is in trouble, dont bother them by asking if there is anything you can do. Think
of something appropriate and do it.


60. Instead of judging people by their past, stand by them and help repair their future.


61. Let us remember that we cant force anyone to love us. We cant beg someone to stay
when they want to leave and be with someone else. This is what love is all about.
However, the end of love is not the end of life. It should be the beginning of
understanding that love leaves for a reason, but never leaves without a lesson.

62. When things fall apart, consider the possibility that life knocked it down on purpose. Not
to bully you, or to punish you, but to prompt you to build something that better suits your
personality and your purpose. Sometimes things fall apart so better things can fall
together.

63. Everyone wants a perfect ending. But over the years Ive learned that some of the best
poems dont rhyme, and many great stories dont have a clear beginning, middle, or
end. Life is about not knowing, embracing change, and taking a moment and making
the best of it without knowing whats going to happen next.

64. In human relationships, distance is not measured in miles but in affection. Two people
can be right next to each other, yet miles apart. So stay in touch with those who truly
matter to you. Not because its convenient, but because theyre worth the extra effort.

65. Never neglect the people who are most important to you simply because you think they
will always be there. Because one morning you might wake up and realize you lost the
moon while counting the stars.

66. True love isnt about being inseparable; its about two people being true to each other
even when they are separated.

67. True friendship and true love do sustain the tests of distance and time.


68. Good relationships are not just about the good times you share; theyre also about the
obstacles you go through together, and the fact that you still say I love you in the end.

69. Dont be someones downtime, sparetime, part time or some time. If they cant be there
for you all the time, then theyre not even worth your time.

70. Sometimes it takes the worst pain to bring about the best things.

71. When we repeatedly and consistently give to another, we must ask ourselves, are we
trying to bribe them to love us.

72. Recovery means to heal ourselves and to stop looking for others to save. Recovery
means we stop seeking out those individual who might need our healing; and realize that
we need our healing touch more than they.

73. The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the
situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

74. 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.
Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

75. 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 you want to forget, you cannot hate.
C. JoyBell C.

76. Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their
songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them
they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison
them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab
and empty for their departure.
Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different
Seasons

77. 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 are not
your mistakes, then they have to go.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

78. You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are
heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.
C. JoyBell C.


79. Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do
have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

80. Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength.
However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and
then do it.
Ann Landers

81. We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but
if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean,
a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you
don't have something better.
C. JoyBell C.

82. There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You
can only love what you got while you got it.
Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie


83. A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and
swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back
into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever
done. But what's yours is yours. Whether its up in the sky or here in your hands. And
one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't
have to put it back in the sky again.
C. JoyBell C.

84. It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from
our errors and move on.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

85. You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

86. Renew, release, let go. Yesterdays gone. Theres nothing you can do to bring it back.
You cant shouldve done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself.
Release that attachment. Today is a new day!
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

87. Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger
Sara Evans

88. Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.
C. JoyBell C.

89. 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.
Sarah Dessen, Dreamland


90. So I placed my heart under lock and key
To take some time, and take care of me
But I turn around and you're standing here
Debra Cox

91. There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are
designed to teach small children this.
Terry Pratchett

92. When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to
protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future
and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we
release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness
with all.
Gerald G. Jampolsky

93. I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on
Rascal Flatts

94. The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

95. Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past
Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

96. Pain will leave you, when you let go
Jeremy Aldana

97. I realize there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts
at letting things go.
Jeffrey McDaniel

98. If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they
needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.
Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

99. The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

100. 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

101. Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future
happiness.
Steve Maraboli

102. And I told him, I said: "One day you're going to miss the subway because it's
not going to come. One of these days, it's going to break down and it's not going to come
around and everyone else will just wait for the next one or will take the bus, or walk, or
run to the next station: they will go on with their lives. And you're not going to be able to
go on with your life! You'll be standing there, in the subway station, staring at the tube.
Why? Because you think that everything has to happen perfectly and on time and when
you think it's going to happen! Well guess what! That's not how things happen! And
you'll be the only one who's not going to be able to go on with life, just because your
subway broke down. So you know what, you've got to let go, you've got to know that
things don't happen the way you think they're going to happen, but that's okay, because
there's always the bus, there's always the next station...you can always take a cab.
C. JoyBell C.

103. The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure
everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.
C. JoyBell C.

104. I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward
Fridtjof Nansen

105. Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
Valery Satterwhite

106. 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 you could do that, would you do it? Would you pick that
day and make that choice? We crave for things to stop changing, we wish that things
would never change. But if we got what we wanted, there are so many things that are
better, that we would never, ever know about. Sure, things would stay the same as that
one wonderful day, but then there would be nothing else out there, ever. So can you
remember the very first day when everything really did begin to change? Is there a thing
that can remind you? Mine is a blue rose, and that's when everything began to change
because that's the day I began to believe in things I never believed in before; the day I
found three blue roses. Think about your first day of change, can you remember all the
new heights you've soared since that day? All the new people? All the better things and
times? Would you throw all of that time away? I wouldn't. Instead, I want to finally
accept all the things that I couldn't change, which led to me being right here, right now.
Maybe we all carry around inside us one day we wish we could keep forever, something
we wished never did change. It's time to let go of that day, and soar.
C. JoyBell C.

107. I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. Its okay if you have to
leave us. Its okay if you want to stop fighting.
Gayle Forman, If I Stay


108. Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred
yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if
you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)
Sarah Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy

109. Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye
Beyonce Knowles

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

111. Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be
touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move
forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current.
And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat,
put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over.
That's a triumph.


112. 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 you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor
power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.
Mark Halperin

113. There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever
thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own
eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw
away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher
powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the
path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part
for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to
see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........
is found the flight!
C. JoyBell C.

114. Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death
struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. Were so
caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our
minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new
things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes
place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we
can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

115. How can he love me then not? He went,he ran. And I cannot bring him back.
Yet I left the door metaphorically wide open, hoping he'd come back and bang on it
proclaiming, "I want to be here with you. Always." Soon I'm going to have to shut it. For
my safety and my sanity. Let go. I don't want to. Won't letting go be just that - letting go?
Giving up? Admitting failure? Admitting that it is really, truly over?
Freya North, Cat

116. Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is
letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear

117. 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 greatest self to flourish.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

118. Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event.
Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.
Steve Maraboli

119. You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with
me.
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

120. Do
you know what pain is, Cammie? Its the
bodys physical response to imminent harm.
It is the minds way of telling us to move our
hand off the stove or let go of the broken
glass.
Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time


121. [D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be.
(95)
Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

122. A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the
shackles of misery.
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free



123. [D]ont cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to
be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist
on the suffering of others as well. (90)
Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last


124. 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.
Tammara Webber, Easy

125. Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And
if youre not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.
Steve Maraboli

126. Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a
willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to
accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
Tony Schwartz

127. I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast.
And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as
they can, but in the end its just too much. The currents too strong. Theyve got to let go,
drift apart.
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

128. Don't go through life; grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

129. When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go.
Kim Sowol

130. As adults, we hvae many inhibitions against crying. We feel it is an expression
of weakness, or femininity or of childishness. The person who is afraid to cry is afraid of
pleasure. This is because the person who is afraid to cry holds himself together rigidly so
that he won't cry; that is, the rigid person is as afraid of pleasure as he is afraid to cry. In a
situation of pleasure he will become anxious. As his tensions relax he will begin to
tremble and shake, and he will attempt to control this trembling so as not to break down
in tears. His anxiety is nothing more than the conflict between his desire to let go and his
fear of letting go. This conflict will arise whenever the pleasure is strong enough to
threaten his rigidity.
Since rigidity develops as a means to block out painful sensations, the release of rigidity
or the restoration of the natural motility of the body will bring these painful sensations to
the fore. Somewhere in his unconscious the neurotic individual is aware that pleasure can
evoke the repressed ghosts of the past. It could be that such a situation is responsible for
the adage "No pleasure without pain.
Alexander Lowen, The Voice of the Body

131. It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this this rock has been waiting for me my
entire life. Ive been moving towards it my whole life.
Aron Ralston, Between a Rock and a Hard Place

132. 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 my mind, it saved my life.
MoZella

133. Where do we go from here?"-Kiera
"We go nowhere."-Denny
S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

134. My tears will show that i can let you go.
Grace The Klaxons

135. The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
Baltasar Gracin, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

136. 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, the only
church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.
Daisy Whitney, The Mockingbirds

137. You should get out of here. Have a good life.
Bree Despain, The Dark Divine

138. For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all ones feelings, does the
hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink,
and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in
short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit
of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

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

140. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone,
you can be rich in loss.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

141. We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for
the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's
Control

142. One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this
life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good
thing!
C. JoyBell C.

143. And I think that I cried for days, but now that seems lightyears away, and I'm
NEVER going back to who I was
MoZella

144. The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not
working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief
system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our
minds.
Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear


145. Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)
Francesca Marciano, Casa Rossa

146. No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find
it immature the moment we turn away from it
Karl R. Popper


147. So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.
Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding

148. The rose has told
In one simplicity
That never life
Relinquishes a bloom
But to bestow
An ancient confidence.
Nathalia Crane, Venus Invisible and Other Poems

149. Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. Theyre designed to coexist in harmony, so
that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and
serenity. (285)
Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and
Revitalize Your Spirit

150. It's the way you fall you. Gotta let yourself go.
Melville Shavelson


151. Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have
happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're
interested in fully living life in the year to come.

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious,
and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to
accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of
growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would
you like to have removed?

What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go?
What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have
happen in your family life?

What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make?
What would you like to happen in your career?

Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as
an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can
help write that story by setting goals.
Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series

152. Quitting is not giving up, it's choosing to focus your attention on something
more important. Quitting is not losing confidence, it's realizing that there are more
valuable ways you can spend your time. Quitting is not making excuses, it's learning to
be more productive, efficient and effective instead. Quitting is letting go of things (or
people) that are sucking the life out of you so you can do more things that will bring you
strength.
Osayi Osar-Emokpae, Impossible Is Stupid

153. I have just lost my reason for fighting so hard. How do I go on now, without my
thing to fight for?' And he whispered into my ear, he said: 'Maybe it's time to stop
fighting.
C. JoyBell C.

154. In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down.
Todd Stocker

155. Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can
write a new one.
Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics
of Abundance

156. No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isnt really forgiven
until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.
Alan Heathcock, Volt

157. Please do not break your heart over the withering of a dream you once held, that
never became yours! After all, the shattered dream could have very well been a
nightmare and not a dream at all, you wouldn't really know because you didn't have it
yet! Let the sparks fade, let the flame dim and die, you'll never know it wasn't poison.
C. JoyBell C.

158. His being there was stirring up a lot of memories she'd have been happier to
leave as sentimental sediment. Not that they weren't good memories. That was the
trouble.
Diana Killian, Dial Om for Murder

159. There is stark difference between letting go and giving up. One is an act of
heroism and unconditional love. The other is an act of cowardice and love that was never
enough to begin with.
Issa Perez de Tagle

160. Creativity is a kind of letting go.
Brandon A. Trean


161. And then Jonah heard Gods voice.
Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?
He was confident it was God because God usually asked questions but gave no answers.
Jonah didnt need a divine answer to this question, he knew it.
Yes, he said. 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 dont.
David W. Jones, Going Nuts!

162. 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.
Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special

163. I drift off for a while. I don't know how long, but when I open my eyes, the
Oscars are still on and Alex tells me that Sid has gone and this makes me a little sad.
Whatever the four of us had is over. He is my daughter's boyfriend now, and I am a
father. A widower. No pot, no cigarettes, no sleeping over. They'll have to find inventive
ways to conduct their business, most likely in uncomfortable places, just like the rest of
them. I let him and my old ways go. We all let him go, as well as who we were before
this, and now it's really just the three of us. I glance over at the girls, taking a good look
at what's left.
Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

164. I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the
only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.
Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

165. You don't learn to love through thinking, but by doing.
Brandon A. Trean


166. What's the difference?" You ask me
The difference is, a smile touches my lips
When I remember both the memory of you entering my life
And the memory of you leaving my life
Tammy-Louise Wilkins, My Intimate Poetry


167. Seize the day, then let it go
Marty Rubin

168. The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on;
still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that
celebrates the open hand.
Elizabeth Berg, Never Change

169. Writing is the art of not getting caught up in what you wrote, or thought
yesterday.
Brandon A. Trean


170. Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place
two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift.
She opened her eyes to see the pearls. She picked one up, but dropped it. It rolled down
the hill upon which she was sitting and into the river. The student chased after it and
looked all afternoon, diving, coming up for air, diving back down.
Sophia, he asked. Could you show me where it went in? I cant find it.
Right there, she said throwing the other pearl in the river.
David W. Jones, For the Love of Sophia

171. A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once
you forgive, will you be able to let go.
Anthony Liccione

172. 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 didnt look like that was going to
happen with my band. So, I enrolled in college and stuff. My senior year had ended, and I
was going through the anxiety of like, I guess Im an adult now kind of and I was really
yearning for a direction. And, I remember like sitting in my back one day, and I was
praying alone, and I remember God said, just give up. Just let go of this worry and this
need for direction and I will give you direction.
Pat Seals

173. You can direct your life without controlling every little aspect of it ^_^.
Brandon A. Trean


174. Before you judge a critic, consider the irony of it.
Brandon A. Trean

175. 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, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the
mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that
life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains.

I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I
want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and
flossing.
Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: Three Essential Prayers


176. Sometimes in your life you have to leave some precious things not because you
don't deserve it but because you deserves something better than that and it's just like
creating space for some bigger and much better things waiting for you in your life
ahead.
Shubhanshu Tiwari

177. Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your
mind.
Rasheed Ogunlaru

178. They say when you really love someone, you should be willing to set them free.
So that is what I am doing. I will step back and you will move on. I will let you go. ...
Your happiness means everything to me. I will listen for your voice in the distance. I will
look at the moon. I will keep you in my pocket. I will carry your smile with me
everywhere, like a warm and comforting glow.
Tabitha Suzuma, A Voice in the Distance

179. He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a
valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.
Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

180. Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers
one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three
years now; it's frozen shut.
Gayle Forman, Where She Went

181. ...Love is easy, falling in love is even easier, but letting that love go, is the most
difficult thing youll ever have to do. Some of us never let it go and
sometimes it takes a while to realize what you want. But your heart will always have the
right answer in the end. You just have to figure out what its
telling you.
Marie Coulson, Bound Together

182. If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the
glorious Christ-built beauty of a set-apart young woman, this is where it all begins.
Denying self, taking up your cross, and following the Lamb wherever He leads. In other
words, letting go of all preoccupation with self: our comfort, our pleasure, our agenda,
our popularity, our ability to gain the world's approval, even our own dreams and desires.
And, as Paul did, treating all those things as rubbish for the excellence of the knowledge
of Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings
(Philippians 3:7-9).
Leslie Ludy

183. One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you
sad.
daily dose

184. She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she
didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us
Chris Manby, Getting Personal

185. Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold
you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move
forward.
Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir
186. 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 their words and deeds. Forgiving was about letting go
and moving on with my life. In doing so, I had finally set myself free.
Isabel Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams


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

188. Ill never let go of you again, she whispered. I swear it.
Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride

189. Dont hang onto anything too tightly all things must change and you have to
allow room for them to grow and blossom.
Rachael Bermingham

190. She's finding it hard to cope - her hopes have been dashed, the future she
dreamed about has gone and she's scared about that. There's nothing in its place. She
wants you back. She doesn't want to let go of everything it meant to her.
Because the world seems horribly big and empty. Because the future is a very frightening
concept when you'd previously planned on sharing it with someone. Because she's a girl,
she's a romantic and she fears if she lets go of her dream, she'll live a nightmare. Because
she has a hope and she fears if she lets her hope go, who will she be?
The effort, the pain of clinging on is preferable to the wide-open fear of letting go.
Freya North, Chances

191. Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

192. Falling in love is easy, letting that love go, is hard. But your heart will always
have the right answer. You just have to listen to it and figure out what its telling you
Marie Coulson, Bound Together

193. I didnt treat my girl like she was mine
Yeah, I thought I didnt need her at the time
But I changed my way of thinkin when she left
Yeah, I finally learned my lesson, but I learned it by myself
Hunter Hayes

194. We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless
when we loosen our grip that we are actually trying to teach our children how to get
along in the world, and that we believe this is our job. A child who can fend for himself is
a lot safer than one forever coddled, because the coddled child will not have Mom or Dad
around all the time, even though they act as if he will.
Lenore Skenazy

195. I'm supposed to a man who never blows his composure
A boy trapped in a war, forced to be a solider
The weight of the world just put on top of my shoulders
But if there's one thing I know for sure
It's that my mind has had its exposure
And my emotional turmoil has finally had its closure
Tommy Tran

196. You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer,
that your priorities and perspectives align in a way theyve never aligned before because
of the sobriety of it all.

But it doesnt.

Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until youre forced to rewrite them
entirely. You cant walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your
back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but its
all dead and you know its going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute.

-Emma
Rachael Wade, Love and Relativity

197. The desicion to let go may linger fear deep within the soul,however once you let
go all will be well with fear replaced with hope.
Maria reveron

198. The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong
generation to let it go.
Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

199. It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a
whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now
I know.
Nick Hornby

200. oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless-
and the beast
your life
nowhere
hiding (p. 103)
Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death

201. I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference?
I could easily
kick you in, stove you
under, for all those times,
mean on gin,
you rammed words
into my belly. (p. 52)
Barbara Blatner

202. I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger
of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing
hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening
only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.
Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
203. 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. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back
every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.'
I couldnt even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who hed
always been. Hed never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit
of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I
never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever.
Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.
I looked at him, and I thought, 'If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.'
I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back.
But I wasnt that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew
anyway.
'I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.'
I was the one to look away first.
Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

204. 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!
Michael Barbarulo: Author God's Healing Hands: Allow God To Reshape Your Soul


205. Think differently, BE better!
Darren L Johnson
206. 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. - Deborah Reber,
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

207. Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength.
However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and
then do it. - Ann Landers


208. Forgiveness means letting go of the past. - Gerald Jampolsky

209. In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will
find yourself. Deepak Chopra

210. Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore
our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands
off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. Melody
Beattie, The Language of Letting Go

211. Open your arms to change, but dont let go of your values. Dalai Lama

212. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.
Ralph Marston

214. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which
depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. Seneca

215. Holding on is believing that theres only a past; letting go is knowing that theres
a future. Daphne Rose Kingma

216. We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full
and our minds empty. Leo F. Buscaglia

217. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist

218. You dont need strength to let go of something. What you really need is
understanding. Guy Finley

219. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Anais Nin

220. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive
yourself. Let go of whats bitter and move on. Bill Cosby

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

222. The mental and physical space we create by letting go of things that belong in our
past gives usthe option to fill the space with something new. Susan Fay West

223. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I
have, I receive what I need. Tao Te Ching

224. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. -
Herman Hesse

225. One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around
to find the future has run out on us. - Michael Cibenko

226. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the
clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit. Jack Kornfield

227. We must be willing to let go of the life weve planned, so as to have the life that is
waiting for us. Joseph Campbell

228. Youve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old whatever the
old means for you. Sarah Ban Breathnach

229. Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger,
and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction. - Shinjo Ito

230. Theres an important difference between giving up and letting go. Jessica
Hatchigan

231. You can only lose what you cling to. Buddha

232. Breathe. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know
you have for sure.
- Oprah Winfrey
233.
Letting go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot
be.
- Anonymous
234.
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you
try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
235.
True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one
way of saying I love you.
- Anonymous
236.
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
237.
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
- Gail Sheehy
238.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go
at some point in order to move forward.
- C.S. Lewis
239.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
- Ann Landers
240.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go
of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
241.
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of
yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from
hope and love?
- Leo Buscaglia
242.
Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
- Kate Winslet
243.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear, they prefer suffering
that is familiar.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
244.
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
- Sylvia Robinson
245.
There's no need to miss someone from your past. There's a reason they didn't make it to
your future.
- Anonymous
246.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence.
A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to
prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Gloria Naylor
247.
Stand up and walk out of your history.
- Phil McGraw
248.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even
celebration of another's personhood.
- Karen Casey


When I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the
most.
- Anonymous

249.
I don't miss him, I miss who I thought he was.
- Anonymous


250.
There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind.
But keep in mind that letting go isn't the end of the world, it's the beginning of a new life.
- Anonymous

251.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is
waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

252.
We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy
moment, or say goodbye just one last time, we never can, because the sands of time
continue to fall, and we can't turn the hourglass over.
- Anonymous


253.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
254.
You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are
golden only because we let them slip by.
- James Matthew Barrie
255.
You never leave someone behind, you take a part of them with you and leave a part of
yourself behind.
- Anonymous
256.
Sometimes you love something so much that it hurts to leave it, but you must. Sometimes
it hurts too much to hold on to that thing you love. And sometimes you let go of what you
love because it hurts, but then just sometimes you get it back and live happily ever after.
- Anonymous
257.
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in
letting go of them.
- John Seely Brown
258.
Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting
them go.
- Oprah Winfrey
259.
Why do people have to lose things to find out what they really mean?
- Tommy Albright
260.
When you are in love and you get hurt, it's like a cut. It will heal, but there will always be
a scar.
- Anonymous
261.
You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to
things you don't want to feel.
- Anonymous

The pain experienced during a breakup is as individual as the trillions of people who go
through it.
- Tigress Luv
262.
Trust me, no past love is as wonderful as a broken heart may make them out to be.
- Anonymous
263.
The funny thing about breakups is they point out what we didn't even know we had, but
don't give us the option of going back into battle armed with that knowledge.
- Anonymous
264.
You are always there for me and so you give me the courage to stand alone.
- Anonymous
265.
You can take away my heart and you can take away my reason to wake up in the
morning, but you can't take away my ability to take them right back from you.
- Tigress Luv
266.
He gave me nothing, and he took it with him when he left.
- Anonymous
267.

Do not take another's bad opinion of you as the truth. Nothing others think or say about
you is about you, but rather a reflection of their own reality.
- Anonymous
268.
Obsession is feeling fearful that you may be losing him; detachment is knowing that he
may be losing you; and apathy is the past tense of both.
- Anonymous

269. Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners.
Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.
- Leo Buscaglia

270. I can embrace myself, hold my own hand, love me. But I can't gaze into my own
eyes and feel my own soul lift me up.
- Anonymous

271. One love isn't all-consuming, but one heartbreak can be.
- Tigress Luv

272. Every happy couple has at least one breakup behind them.
- Anonymous

273. Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them.
- Anonymous

274. I know in reality we can't be together, so I just close my eyes and you're right here
with me in my dreams, you're mine forever.
- Anonymous

275. The dark of night does not come after the golden glow of the day's sun but before
it.
- Anonymous

276. No one is spared the pain of rejection, except the ignorant and the fool. Which my
ex just happens to be both of.
- Anonymous

277. Positive Fabulous Inspirational Quotes
278. The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong
road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesnt matter which road we embark on.
Maybe what matters is that we embark.
Barbara Hall
279. It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities
which we have failed to realize.
Robert Mallet
280. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out
eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
281. Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean
Ryunosuke Satoro
282. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more
money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually
works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you love to do,
in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
283. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes Jr.
284. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer
285. Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Roger Crawford
286. In everybodys life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into
flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be grateful for those
people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
287. Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
Leo Buscaglia
288. The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the
urgent.
Denis Waitley
289. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the
safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
290. We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by
ceasing to be something old.
Frederick Buechner
291. Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains
how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision.
Bob Proctor
292. I have failed many times, and thats why I am a success.
Michael Jordan
293. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers
294. Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way
you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
295. I always wanted a happy ending Now Ive learned, the hard way, that some
poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life
is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it
without knowing whats going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
296. To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Burnadette Devlin
297. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
298. If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different
yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale
299. I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words
with the intention to require more from yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
300. One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new
interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will
always lead to something else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
301. Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all
boundaries.
Corita Kent
302. Courage doesnt always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of
the day saying, Ill try again tomorrow.
Maryanne Radmacher
303. Do what you feel in your heart to be right for youll be criticized anyway.
Youll be damned if you do, and damned if you dont.
Eleanor Roosevelt
304. We dont see things as they are. We see them as we are.
Anais Nin
305. If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.
Julia Soul
306. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either
a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
307. Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Brian Tracy
308. If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does
not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
309. Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
Unknown
310. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you dont try.
Beverly Sills
311. Its choice not chance that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch
312. Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
313. In everybodys life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into
flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be grateful for those
people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
314. Dont ask so much what the world needs.
Go out and do what makes you come alive,
because what the world needs most
are people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
315. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
316.