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“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: On Work, Money, and Miracles

“I love you, and I want you to be happy, I want you to have the life you deserve. And if that means â€� if that means I have to stand here and watch you walk away, then I’ll do it. I won’t be happy about it. It’ll break my heart. But â€� if that’s what you really need, then we’re done.”
― Charles Sheehan-Miles, A Song for Julia

“She had hope in her heart but after a while, with each step forward, hope stepped back. And for the first time in months, the first time ever, she began to weep, and as she did she knew that with the retreat of hope her heart had finally caught up with her head. And as each tear spilled over she let them go, she was letting go.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Even though I'd told her that I couldn't walk away from her, I finally realized that I loved her too much to fuck her life by staying, or to lose her completely by forcing us both to hang on until we hated each other.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.”
― Kellie Elmore, Jagged Little Pieces

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

“No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.”
― Alan Heathcock, Volt

“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

“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.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“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,â€� 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, Going Nuts!

“This is a story about survival.
Letting go and learning to let in.
Getting along and moving on.
The truth about life.
The things left unsaid...”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“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: The Three Essential Prayers

“Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."

He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Sever

“Life is not about control or making things happen in the ways we think they should happen. In fact, it's rather arrogant for us to be on this planet that's been here for so long and expect to be able to control life on it. If we want to see changes, then our task is to set things in motion, not to micromanage and make them happen in the ways we think they should. If we have something that is possessing us, such as alcohol or our television sets or our cell phones, then it could be time to let it go and move on with our lives. If we're holding on to resentment and anger, we're simply raising our own stress levels and blood pressure, but we're not contributing anything positive to the situation--and it's time to let it go.”
― Tom Walsh

“The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat of the darkness, a cold ellipsis, punctuating years gone by.

Arising unchained.

No glorious hymn, just the steady beat of the illusion of time. We heal or we carry forward the weight of our wounds... To believe otherwise is the mendacity of desperation.

Arising honestly.

The miles behind are littered with the weight of nostalgia, but too many miles lay ahead us to carry the weight. In the end, even echoes fade away.

Pen in hand...

Arising to write the next chapter.

(MU Articles 2013, Dedication to Joey)”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.”
― Elliot Kay, Its Your Right To Be Wrong

“Letting go is the one last option I have and I am too stubborn to take it”
― Samantha Jones, Just Friends Never Lovers

“Let me go!â€� she growls. “No.â€� “Let me fucking go, Colton.â€� Her voice is tiny, scared, vulnerable, and vehement. “You let go.â€� “Why?â€� A hitch in her voice. “Because holding on to it is killing you.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

“He says, "But it is really whatever, you know? You've saved me way more times. And we call ourselves friends."

It doesn't matter what we call ourselves, really. "You already saved me," I say.

"That was nothing."

"I'm not talking about the cave."

He wrinkles his nose.

"That first day," I say, "When you got up on the rocks to flirt with a human boy."

He smiles big, with all his ground-down teeth shining.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Teeth

“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 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 I’m an adult now kind ofâ€� 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

“Why are you sad?" Baby asked.
"Because some day you'll fly higher than high, and the blue will fill your eyes, and maybe you'll forget to come down," said Wishmoley.
Baby snuggled next to him. "I'll never forget," she said.”
― Julia Hubery Mary McQuillam, Wishmoley and the Little Piece of Sky

“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

“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 can’t find it.�
“Right there,â€� she said throwing the other pearl in the river.”
― David W. Jones, For the Love of Sophia: Wisdom Stories from Around the World and Across the Ages

“I hold my finger up to his lips. He flicks his eyes down to look at it.

"You're absolved," I tell him.

He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.

So I put it in his language. "You're free.”
― Hannah Moskowitz