Quotes in the category letting-go.
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.
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.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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.
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
Even on my weakest daysI get a little bit stronger
I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.
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 couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’dalways been. He’d 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 wasn’t 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.
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.
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.
When you leave,weary of me,without a word I shall gently let you go.
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 behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.
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.
You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.
I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault.
No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.
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.
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.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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.
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
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