The Art of Letting Go

by Rania Naim

The more you fight for something that is not meant for you, the more it will fight you.

Some endings are not bad; sometimes they are not even endings, just bridges to new beginnings.

I think part of the reason we hold on to something so tight is because we fear something so great won’t happen twice.

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.

how much power there is in being alone. I took some time to reflect on my choices. I realized that, too often, I spent time on people who didn’t think of me half as much. I gave to people who could only take. I loved people who could only give me apathy.

Here is something to keep in mind about pain: it doesn’t go away just because it goes unacknowledged.