#letting

I'm supposed to a man who never blows his composure A boy trapped in a war, forced to be a solider The weight of the world just put on top of my shoulders But if there's one thing I know for sure It's that my mind has had its exposure And my emotional turmoil has finally had its closure ↗

— Tommy Tran

#life #love #moving-forward #poetry #sad

Our book would never be read aloud There would not be celebrations of milestones Of souls in warmth and drunk embers of whispers that caressed wounded yesterdays Our names would never be uttered in one breath There would not be oohs and aahs at yellowed photographs Of promises made in the silence of held hands And yet If I am not able to love again, the way that I do now… I would toast to what you and I could have been As frost of what’s left unspoken thaw and disappear Because We sought out the sun And coaxed out the moon As we basked and bathed In love’s soothing serenade And in those moments Memories of you now Would always Always be enough for me. ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#love

My heart didn’t break into a thousand pieces after he left. Instead, I realized all the things he didn’t do. He didn’t want to hear my stories. He didn’t ask me questions. He didn’t smile when I was talking to him. He didn’t hug me out of the blue to make me feel good. His hugs were always a preamble to something else and after he was gone, I wondered if he ever knew me at all. ↗

— Diane Les Becquets

#letting-go #love #love

And I told him, I said: "One day you're going to miss the subway because it's not going to come. One of these days, it's going to break down and it's not going to come around and everyone else will just wait for the next one or will take the bus, or walk, or run to the next station: they will go on with their lives. And you're not going to be able to go on with your life! You'll be standing there, in the subway station, staring at the tube. Why? Because you think that everything has to happen perfectly and on time and when you think it's going to happen! Well guess what! That's not how things happen! And you'll be the only one who's not going to be able to go on with life, just because your subway broke down. So you know what, you've got to let go, you've got to know that things don't happen the way you think they're going to happen, but that's okay, because there's always the bus, there's always the next station...you can always take a cab. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#control-issues #controlling #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #letting-go

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. ↗

— Tony Schwartz

#certainty #curiosity #growing #learning #letting-go

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#basically #come #image #into #just

If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand. ↗

— Brad Carson

#i #know #letting #republicans #stand

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. ↗

— Robert Welch

#country #insane #letting #patients #place

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#again #continue #doors #go #happen

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. ↗

— Bill Russell

#harder #harder time #letting #love #most