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#1

“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

tags: sadness

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#2

“I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#3

“I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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#4

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

tags: love, pain, relationships, self

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#5

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, being-loved, inspirational, life, love, relationships

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#6

“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
― Stephanie Lennox, I Don't Remember You

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#7

“I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay”
― Sara Evans

tags: breakups, couples, heartbreak, love, relationships

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#8

“I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart”
― Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart

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#9

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
― Ann Landers

tags: acceptance, courage, judgement, letting-go, strength

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#10

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: enlightenment, forgiveness, inspirational-quotes, knowledge, letting-go

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#11

“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”
― Deborah Cox

tags: couples, heartbreak, helpless-love, letting-go, love, missing-you, romance

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#12

“I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward”
― Fridtjof Nansen

tags: inspiring, letting-go, moving-on, wise-words

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#13

“The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.”
― Tammara Webber, Easy

tags: hurt, letting-go, love

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#14

“I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.”
― Turcois Ominek

tags: chances, deserve, done, ending, guilty, leaving, letting-go, love, over, sad, truth

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#15

“When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go.”
― Kim Sowol

tags: azaleas, heartache, heartbreak, korean-poetry, letting-go, love

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#16

“It's time, Perry". He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the tiny inperfections that made him beautiful. Without a word, she turned and made her way downhill.”
― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

tags: dystopian-fiction, letting-go, romance, under-the-never-sky, young-adult

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#17

“When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: beginnings, choices, doors, endings, faith, future, giving-up, goals, god-s-plan, goodbyes, hope, letting-go, love, moving-on, plans, regret, sorrow

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#18

“If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”
― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

tags: fly-on-the-sky, leave-the-earth, let-go, let-go-of-attachment, let-go-of-clutter, letting-go, letting-go-of-the-past, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, past, past-and-future, self-discovery, wisdom, wisdom-of-life

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#19

“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: evolution, evolve, friends, friendship, growth, letting-go, moving-on, positive-thinking, seasonal-friendships, seasons, the-single-woman

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#20

“Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: build-values, chasing, chastity, daughters-of-god, dignity, ego, empowering-women, gratitude, hell-to-well, insecurity, knowing-your-worth, lessons-learned, let-it-go, letting-go, life-lessons, living-authentically, morals, moving-on, other-woman, pride, pursuit, quality, quality-women, rise-up, self-compassion, self-confidence, self-love, self-worth, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, temptress, to-be-human, wellness

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#21

“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: acting, action, believing, choices, decisions, delusion, faith, inspirational-writers, intentions, letting-go, moving-forward, ocd, the-past, understanding, wisdom

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#22

“To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: breaking-up, letting-go, love, loving-and-leaving, relationships, unconditional-love, walking-away

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#23

“Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: apologizing, closure, communication, empathy, ending-it, forgiving, letting-go, listening, offering-hope, peace, reaching-out, see, taking, understanding

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#24

“Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.”
― Steve Maraboli

tags: let-go, letting-go, yesterday

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#25

“Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?

What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?

What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?

Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”
― Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency

tags: affirmation, beginnings, dreams, goals, letting-go, new-year, plans

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#26

“Where do we go from here?"-Kiera
"We go nowhere."-Denny”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

tags: hurt, letting-go, love

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#27

“You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy.

It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip -- which means letting go of him.”
― Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

tags: letting-go, love, relationships

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#28

“What people resist is not change per se, but loss.”
― Ronald Heifetz, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

tags: grief, letting-go, status-quo

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#29

“It's the way you fall you. Gotta let yourself go.”
― Melville Shavelson

tags: cary-grant, clifford-tatum-jr, letting-go, room-for-one-more

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#30

“Then, she let it go.”
― Cassia Leo, The Way We Fall

tags: letting-go, love

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