#letting

Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#breakups #dating #going-through-a-breakup #holding-out-for-the-best #honoring-yourself

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s 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

#despair #letting-go #life #moving-on #sadness

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#air #back #comes #effect #face

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#any #capable #come #daily #effort

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#creativity #described #go #letting #letting go

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#during #few #had #harris #home

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

— Henry Havelock Ellis

#life #living #art

Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#finding-yourself #happily-single #happiness #happy #holding-out-for-the-best

And then Jonah heard God’s 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 didn’t 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 don’t. ↗

— David W. Jones

#death #death-of-a-loved-one #god-s-grace #grief #letting-go

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

#old-love #dreams