The Art of Letting Go

by Rania Naim

See it for what is, not what you want it to be. —Anonymous

Everyone you meet makes you stronger, and makes you look at life just a little different than you did before.

Maybe there’s a quiet, unspoken part of us that craves that possibility more than its realization. Maybe we thrive on those maybes and those somedays more than we care to admit. Maybe we need to leave some doors open and some chapters unwritten. Maybe it’s those maybes that keep us alive.

Maybe we all like having someone to fantasize absentmindedly about, to send an open-ended text to every now and then, to catch up with over a leisurely bottle of wine every two to three years, when the geography and timing is right. Maybe all these people make up parts of ourselves that we don’t want to ever fully realize, but want to keep alive.

sometimes the best thing you can do for someone you love is to let them go – to do more, feel more, be more than the person they ever could ever have become by your side.

The people who were able to hurt you most were also the people who you were able to love the most.

The people who have been through a lot are often the ones who are wiser and kinder and happier overall.

To fully accept your life – the highs, lows, good, bad – is to be grateful for all of it, and to know that the “good” teaches you well, but the “bad” teaches you better.

There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.—Kate DiCamillo

Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.—Daphne Rose Kingma

What’s meant to be will always find a way.—Trisha Yearwood