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“One day he will be in my place and what he will learn then is that trying and holding on are complicated and challenging things, but the most difficult thing in life is to love fiercely and then let go.”
― Twinkle Khanna, Mrs Funnybones: She's just like You and a lot like Me

“the only person you can ever change is yourself; after you have done that and you are the best you that you can be, let go. There is always another job, another woman, another best friend. Each day that you persist in a situation where you are miserable is a day wasted on the path that would lead you to happiness.’ He looks at me and says, ‘So you are saying I should take the easy way out?’ And I say, ‘No, I want you to know the difference between trying and holding on.’ Monday”
― Twinkle Khanna, Mrs Funnybones: She's just like You and a lot like Me

“Each day that you persist in a situation where you are miserable is a day wasted on the path that would lead you to happiness.’ He looks at me and says, ‘So you are saying I should take the easy way out?’ And I say, ‘No, I want you to know the difference between trying and holding on.”
― Twinkle Khanna, Mrs Funnybones: She's just like You and a lot like Me

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun