The Art of Letting Go

by Rania Naim

Anything that feels forced or harder than it should be or causes you pain and distress is not meant for you.

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

There is power in letting go, a power that brings more peace and serenity than being stuck in situations that make your heart a bit heavier each and every day.

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. —Paulo Coelho

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. —Anonymous

The truth is if you reach a point where letting go is the only option, it usually means that this thing or someone already let you go. You are trying to stay in a place where you are not welcome anymore.

if someone let you go, they didn’t really want to stay,

Forgive yourself enough to let go of even the parts of you that dim your light.

A relationship should bring out the best in you. A relationship should be eternally supportive, and you should lift each other up in your worst moments.

You have to truly love yourself, inside and out, before you can be in a successful relationship.

Your indifference taught me that I could not be indifferent to my own needs, ex-boyfriends. And that is a powerful lesson that I might not have learned had you not been so dismissive of me. Your emotional abuse and manipulative tactics taught me I could not tolerate being disrespected. I give respect, and I deserve it back – from everyone.

Mourn the loss, because a breakup is a loss. It’s the loss of potential, the loss of what could have been.

This is me accepting that you’re leaving.

This is my conceptualization: That someday I’m going to have a wedding and that you will not be there.

This is me knowing that I have to let you go.

This is my parting, my reluctance, my heartache and my final gift to you. This is me letting you go.

because there is a chaos that laughs inside of you and it is going to change lives.

It is going to grow love from thorn and glass.

If they leave, you have to let them go. Because otherwise? You will sit waiting in the driveway. Your stomach will land inside your mouth with every headlight you see. You will become convinced each car is theirs. That this next one, that will be it. They will come back. That is was all a dream, or a nightmare. So you sit. And you wait. The sun sets and comes back up, and you’re still waiting.

But if they have left, you have to let them go. You have no other choice. Because they made this decision. They could have stayed. And they didn’t.

you’re wondering if you are just ash. Are you the aftermath of a star exploding? No. You are a star reaching new heights. You are learning to be okay with your place in the sky. Shooting stars are the cowards, running away. You, my love, you are here. You did not run.

You may crumble and wonder if it’s worth it. You are.

You broke my heart, but I am forever thankful. For the moments, the memories, the kisses, and the accidental falling that happens when you close your eyes, when you let it. For what I learned in losing you: what I deserve, the immensity of my strength, my capacity to love, to let go.

We aren’t profoundly affected by people who aren’t already deeply within our hearts. For someone to have that much importance in your life is sacred, even when it goes askew.

we’re all stars that think they’re dying until we realize we’re collapsing into supernovas – to become more beautiful than ever before.

Sometimes the way light enters us is, in fact, through the wound.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.—Vivian