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“In the words of C. Joybell C., we’re all stars that think they’re dying until we realize we’re collapsing into supernovas – to become more beautiful than ever before. It often takes the contrast of pain to completely appreciate what we have, it often takes hate to incite self-recognition. Sometimes the way light enters us is, in fact, through the wound. 5.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“I think part of the reason we hold on to something so tight is because we fear something so great won’t happen twice.
—Anonymous”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“Anything that feels forced or harder than it should be or causes you pain and distress is not meant for you.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“There’s no right way to be twenty-five. Because there’s no one, single, specific way to be human. As long as you keep your eyes open, as long as you keep trying new things and working hard and refusing to accept mediocrity as your fate, you will be okay. You will be happy. You will be exactly where you’re supposed to be.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“Whatever it is you’re feeling, feel it. Don’t bury it, don’t hide from it, don’t ignore it. Feel the awful, brutal feelings.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“Forgiveness means giving up hope for a different past. It means knowing that the past is over, the dust has settled and the destruction left in its wake can never be reconstructed to resemble what it was. It’s accepting that there’s no magic solution to the damage that’s been caused. It’s the realization that as unfair as the hurricane was, you still have to live in its city of ruins. And no amount of anger is going to reconstruct that city. You have to do it yourself.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“Those relationships didn’t actually hurt you, they showed you an unhealed part of yourself, a part that was preventing you from being truly loved.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“There is power in letting go, a power that brings more peace and serenity than being stuck in situations that make your heart a bit heavier each and every day.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“In the strangest, most inexplicable way, we need those lovers that we never fully let go of. Because each one of them represents a whole entire world within ourselves.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“we are just programmed to complicate life sometimes”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“In feeling helpless, you learn to take care of yourself. In feeling used, you recognize your worth. In being abused, you develop compassion. In feeling like you’re stuck, you realize there is always a choice. In accepting what was done to you, you realize that nobody has control at the end of the day, but in surrendering the need for something we’ll never have, we can find peace, which is what we were actually seeking in the first place.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“What is destined will reach you, even if it be underneath two mountains. What is not destined, will not reach you, even if it be between your two lips.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“The more you fight for something that is not meant for you, the more it will fight you.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“The truth is, when someone doesn’t want you, no reason matters. No amount of fixing could change that and actually, there isn’t anything that needs to be fixed because nothing was wrong or missing in the first place. You have always been wholly you, before or after them, including all the flaws and imperfections that make you unique. So if you ever feel the need to redeem or validate yourself after being rejected, please don’t because no one can take anything away from you by not wanting you and you aren’t born to prove yourself to anyone.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“2. You don’t meet people by accident, and that each person who crosses your path brings life lessons to you that God knew you needed.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“The truth about anger is that it’s nothing more than the refusal to heal, because you’re scared to. Because you’re afraid of who you’ll be once your wounds close up and you have to go on living in your new, unfamiliar skin. You want your old skin back. And so anger tells you to keep that wound bleeding.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“Someday someone’s going to love all of those tiny things about you. Someone’s going to love the way you cough. They’re going to laugh at the way you lose your keys while you’re actually holding them. Someday, someone is going to stare at you from across a crowded room and know exactly how you’re feeling based on the way your head is tilting or the type of wine you’ve used to fill your glass. Someone is going to appreciate all of your obscurities eventually but right now they are all only your own. And that’s okay. First and foremost, you will always belong to yourself.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“Go outside occasionally to smoke a cigarette. It’s a good way to make friends, it makes you look cool, and you’re already dead on the inside, anyway.”
― Thought Catalog, 17 Lists That Will Change Your Life

“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“Go for a walk and make yourself a promise for the duration of your walk. I will allow myself to feel whatever I feel. And listen. With every step, check in with yourself. Are you sad? Are you angry? Do you feel utterly lost? Listen to all of it. Accept all of it. Decide this walk will be the time you finally let yourself off the hook.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“But the truth is going to heal your heart a lot faster than simply letting it break over and over until you finally face what you knew all along anyway: If he wanted to be with you, he would be with you.”
― Thought Catalog, Happily (N)ever After: Essays That Will Heal Your Broken Heart

“Some endings are not bad; sometimes they are not even endings, just bridges to new beginnings.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“81. You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. —Anne Lamott”
― Thought Catalog, 100: Because Lists Are Better In Triple Digits

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.—Vivian Greene”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“Any time you feel like you’re making the wrong choice, remember that life is not built exclusively on perfect decisions and that your recoveries are just as important as your mistakes.”
― Thought Catalog, All The Reminders You Need To Get You Through Anything In Life

“If an opportunity passed you by, it didn’t really want to stop at your station, if someone let you go, they didn’t really want to stay, if someone else got what you were praying for, this blessing was not written for you to begin with and you will be blessed in another way.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“The truth is if you reach a point where letting go is the only option, it usually means that this thing or someone already let you go. You are trying to stay in a place where you are not welcome anymore.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go

“Just survive. Life is about surviving the best way you know how.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“A relationship should bring out the best in you. A relationship should be eternally supportive, and you should lift each other up in your worst moments.”
― Thought Catalog, The Art of Letting Go