#letting

We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#letting-go #life #spirit #life

I watched her with the crab as she ignored all my admonitions that the poor crab just needed to be set free if he was to have any chance of surviving. And God showed up there on that beach to teach me a lesson. Nothing survives when it's being smothered. Life, real life, requires being free to move about in the great big ocean, not being cradled in little hot hands that will stifle independence and creativity. We can't keep our crabs (or our kids) in a bucket and expect them to go far in life. ↗

— Melanie Shankle

#letting-go #motherhood #life

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

#letting-go #love #moving-on #love

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

#letting-go #love #loving #separating #separation

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

#heartbreak #helpless-love #letting-go #love #missing-you

Our book would never be read aloud There would not be celebrations of milestones Of souls in warmth and drunk embers of whispers that caressed wounded yesterdays Our names would never be uttered in one breath There would not be oohs and aahs at yellowed photographs Of promises made in the silence of held hands And yet If I am not able to love again, the way that I do now… I would toast to what you and I could have been As frost of what’s left unspoken thaw and disappear Because We sought out the sun And coaxed out the moon As we basked and bathed In love’s soothing serenade And in those moments Memories of you now Would always Always be enough for me. ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#love

My heart didn’t break into a thousand pieces after he left. Instead, I realized all the things he didn’t do. He didn’t want to hear my stories. He didn’t ask me questions. He didn’t smile when I was talking to him. He didn’t hug me out of the blue to make me feel good. His hugs were always a preamble to something else and after he was gone, I wondered if he ever knew me at all. ↗

— Diane Les Becquets

#letting-go #love #love

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

#certainty #curiosity #growing #learning #letting-go

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare? ↗

— Patrick Ness

#hope #patrick-ness #the-knife-of-never-letting-go #winning

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. ↗

— Alice Walker

#hold-you #leaving #let-go #letting-go #loss