"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. W..."
- John Lennon
"It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For ..."
- Henry Rollins
"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love in..."
- Shel Silverstein
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
- Kahlil Gibran
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
- Emily Dickinson
"You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved."
- Stewart O'Nan
"Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."
- Nicholas Sparks
"Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real."
- Lisa Schroeder
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"
- Sharon Salzberg
"The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because ..."