#i cannot live on chicken and stars soup forever

[narzissenkreuz-ordo]

ARGHH...... i have to be up at 5:30 and its already 1:30........

we have to drive my sister to the train station in tacoma bc shes going down to portland for the weekend. the train leaves at 8 fucking am

good thing is my mom is dropping me off at the ER which is on the way to tacoma fjdkslfs and it works out bc she has to pick up stuff for her next post-cancer check in... BUT 5:30 AM.........

[greenroseunderglass]

Tagged by @reallyginnyf thank you for thinking of me!

Rules: tag a few people you want to know better; make a new post, don’t reblog!

Favorite color: bluegreengold -- that's a color, right?

Currently reading: Fanfiction, a lovely thing by Ahria on AO3 that I think will be posted any minute now and is utterly worth the read.

In Dreams I Cry to Wake Again. IS POSTED NOW GO LOOK

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38132833/chapters/95261800

Last song: was actually an AOS vid, I Lived, Mortal Secret, because 2am reasons.

Last series: Since I've returned to being a Star Trek junky I've actually been rewatching Star Trek. Like, a lot. There's a lot of the old stuff out there, did you notice?

Last movie: Star Trek Reboot: Beyond -- it isn't my fault! I was beta-ing an AOS fic and needed their voices in my head.

Sweet, spicy, or savory: Savory, then sweet right now. Since my tangle with Covid anything spicy is a NO.

Coffee or tea: Tea. Coffee was created by demons to enslave mankind.

Three ships: Oh, I'm going to cheat and do my Forever Ships, from the last millenium: Kirk/Spock, Bruce Wayne/Kal-El,  and Bobby Drake/Remy LeBeau

First ever ship: Kirk and Spock, of course. I was shipping them before the internet, when I had never heard of shipping or, for that matter, gay people.

Currently working on: A Trek fic I started with great hopes before personal emergency and covid got between us. I am trying to lure it back from hiding.

Favorite piece of clothing: I bought this scarf from a store for Muslim women, because I like to wear tank top clothing and I live in the U.S. deep south and need something to toss over my shoulders. It has become my favorite thing on earth, so soft and so delicately finished at the ends and the colors are so subtle -- I didn't even notice all that when I bought it. I was just like, cool. Big enough. Navy. Perfect.

Comfort food: I've been going with the chicken soup with too many crackers thing lately. Usually it is any divine child of milk chocolate and caramel.

Favorite time of year: I'm just stealing @reallyginnyf 's answer here -- Any time it’s 60 degrees F or cooler.

Favorite fanfiction: I cannot even come close to narrowing it down. Right now, this minute, I would say the highest quality, most engaging fanfic I'm reading at the moment is the Consequences series by WerewolvesAreReal on AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/series/1798576

And tagging people, I never know who to get. Just if you want to and don't feel pestered! (There's a good southern word!) @ahria-lethe @wargleblargle @between-stars-and-enterprise @saltykettlechips

[humanitiesideas]

🌹🇺🇸🎖️❤️

DADDY’S DAY written by Cheryl Costello-Forshey

Her hair was up in a ponytail, her favorite dress tied with a bow. Today was Daddy's Day at school, and she couldn't wait to go.

But her mommy tried to tell her, that she probably should stay home. Why the kids might not understand, if she went to school alone.

But she was not afraid; she knew just what to say. What to tell her classmates of why he wasn't there today.

But still her mother worried, for her to face this day alone. And that was why once again, she tried to keep her daughter home.

But the little girl went to school eager to tell them all, about a dad she never sees, a dad who never calls.

There were daddies along the wall in back, for everyone to meet. Children squirming impatiently, anxious in their seats.

One by one the teacher called a student from the class, to introduce their daddy, as seconds slowly passed.

At last the teacher called her name, every child turned to stare, each of them was searching, a man who wasn't there.

'Where's her daddy at?' she heard a boy call out. 'She probably doesn't have one,' another student dared to shout.

And from somewhere near the back, she heard a daddy say, 'Looks like another deadbeat dad, too busy to waste his day.'

The words did not offend her, as she smiled up at her Mom, and looked back at her teacher, who told her to go on.

And with hands behind her back, slowly she began to speak. And out from the mouth of a child, came words incredibly unique.

'My Daddy couldn't be here, because he lives so far away. But I know he wishes he could be, since this is such a special day.

And though you cannot meet him, I wanted you to know, all about my daddy, and how much he loves me so.

He loved to tell me stories, he taught me to ride my bike, and he surprised me with pink roses, and taught me to fly a kite.

We used to share fudge sundaes, and ice cream in a cone, and though you cannot see him, I'm not standing here alone.

'Cause my daddy's always with me, even though we are apart, I know because he told me, he'll forever be in my heart.

‘With that, her little hand reached up, and lay across her chest, feeling her own heartbeat, beneath her favorite dress.

And from somewhere here in the crowd of dads, her mother stood in tears, proudly watching her daughter, who was wise beyond her years.

She stood up for the love of a man not in her life, doing what was best for her, doing what was right.

And when she dropped her hand back down, staring straight into the crowd, she finished with a voice so soft, but its message clear and loud.

'I love my daddy very much, he's my shining star, and if he could, he'd be here, but heaven's just too far.

You see he is a soldier and died just this past year, when a roadside bomb hit his convoy and taught the world to fear.

But sometimes when I close my eyes, it's like he never went away.' And then she closed her eyes, and saw him there that day.

And to her mother’s amazement, she witnessed with surprise. A room full of daddies and children, all starting to close their eyes.

Who knows what they saw before them, who knows what they felt inside. Perhaps for merely a second, they saw him at her side.

'I know you're with me Daddy,' to the silence she called out. And what happened next made believers, of those once filled with doubt.

Not one in that room could explain it, for each of their eyes had been closed. But there on the desk beside her, was a fragrant long-stemmed rose.

And a child was blessed, if only for a moment, by the love of her shining star.

And given the gift of believing, that heaven is never too far.

*DADDY’S DAY written ©2000, By Cheryl Costello-Forshey; has been published in the books: Chicken Soup for the Parent’s Soul, and, Stories for a Teen’s Heart 2

[keeper0fthestars]

I was tagged by @lannister-slings-and-arrows to share five things about myself so we can get to know each other:

1. I would rather shop for new notebooks than new clothes.. well, except maybe chucks. I would never turn down the chance to get a new pair.

2. I am a textbook INFJ personality. The rarest type. I am not one to label myself or anyone else, and for the longest time, I refused to fit myself into a box, and the truth is, I often feel like the unicorn in the room. I am very private, I would much rather talk about your stuff than mine. But if I trust you I am extremely expressive and sentimental. I’m highly capable of offering understanding and compassion but the downside is that I pick up and absorb everyone’s emotions. I think I’ve developed this coping mechanism where a lot of times I get lost inside my own head. Sometimes so much that I cannot even see things, people, right in front of me. I will literally walk right past someone I know without seeing them or saying hello. I’m not ignoring them on purpose I just didn’t notice them because there was TOO muCh going on and I had to tune everything out LOL!!  I hate last-minute plans and people who show up at my door unexpectedly.  I feel drained when I’m around my sister and my parents for too long and I need a lot of time to recover after spending time with them.  And that tells you everything you need to know about who my family are. Lol Basically, i am a delight.

3. I am highly perceptive and I have crazy sharp intuition. This does not mean that I know everything. And It does not mean that I am never wrong. But my instincts about people and situations are usually spot on. It used to freak my husband out for the first little while that we were together but now he always asks for my read on things and people. 

4. I love the beach and one day I will live near the ocean. 

5. I love music. Freddie Mercury singing Who Wants To Live Forever will make me tear up. Every. Time. And I love all kinds of movies, except maybe horror... I especially love Sci-Fi!! Return of the Jedi is my chicken soup movie. The movie I pick first when I’m sick, that or The Princess Bride. I love Sci-Fi tv too, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Stranger Things, too many shows not enough time. My youngest has been after me to watch THE 100 with her. Has anyone seen it? Is it good!

tagging a few of you who are infinitely cooler than me: @tastedheart @devilsblackflame@youhavereachedtheendofpie @just-add-butter @rise-my-angel @allez-argeiphontes @bucky-is-my-precious and if anyone else would like to play along, please tag me so i can see it.

[jcmorrigan]

Right, since you asked me questions about my f/o, I'll fire some at you now! 1. Favourite place to go with them 2. How do you care for them when they are ill and vice versa 3. Had any playful arguments that you look at and go 'what were we doing??' I'll slide these over here and be on my way ;3

All right! So, as a reminder, I have three (3) romantic f/o’s - XR from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Tony Dracon from Gargoyles, and Giovanni Potage from Epithet Erased. And for this exercise, I am going to answer all three questions FOR ALL THREE OF THEM! (If you’re following me for something other than selfship and you don’t wanna see me ramble for three pages, please block the tag “selfship” now)

1. FAVORITE PLACE TO GO!

I hadn’t realized until I thought about it, but it always seems to come back to a rooftop in the city. You think I like city lights or something? I do. I love city lights. I love cities.

Anyway, with XR, I decided right away that our favorite planet is Trade World, seedy underbelly and all. We can kill time there forever (and probably waste all our money on stuff that isn’t important). I haven’t written it yet, but one of the ideas I had for writing us was that after the big love confession, we’d have our first date on a rooftop restaurant there and watch the lights come on as the sun set, at which point I very sappily draw a connection between my love of city lights and XR’s eyes.

As for Giovanni, I have this whole oneshot about our first kiss that revolves around us trying to find the most perfect and fittingly dramatic place for it, and I ended up putting us on a rooftop at the edge of town where the Sweet Jazz skyline would be our background in all its luminescent glory. I imagine we’d go back up to that building again and again to talk about things if we’re not chilling at home or a base of operations. Just watching the night.

Then for Tony? I admittedly hadn’t given it too much thought, but I immediately got an image of us on, guess what, a rooftop, but of a skyscraper in downtown NYC. Now, Gio and I had to break onto ours by scaling the fire escape ladders; Tony would bust locks and we’d just take the stairs up from the inside. And that’s where we slow-dance when we want to be alone. Bring up a whole portable stereo and a mix of the schmaltziest love rock-ballads (think, like, REO Speedwagon or Journey). Come to think of it, I actually don’t know whether he’s made the connection that the Gargoyles operate out of the Eyrie, so we would definitely look at the freaking castle above the clouds and go “Next target” without knowing the law and order of the town that plagues our existence roosts there.

I’m also working on an AU that is compliant with my “Taking Back the Crown” crossover universe, and in that one, I’m thinking I’d be polyamorous with all three. While I haven’t picked a favorite spot, I do know that particular s/i would live in Twilight Town, and since Final Fantasy is piecemeal AU’d into KH logic (whereas none of those three are from canon KH worlds but it’s an easy crossover gateway so their worlds would just be intact), I actually have this design that Rabanastre from FFXII would be the capital of the nation Twilight Town is in and a few hours’ train ride away, and the four of us just LOVE heading over there and probably scaling some rooftops.

2. CARING FOR THE SICK!

Let’s start with me, in general. I’m a huge hypochondriac. I fear germs. I’m not really that good at taking care of sick friends/family, but for a romantic partner, I’d try to step up my game. I’d be on call. Now, if they were just ordinary sick, I might see if they’d be okay staying home while I got work done, with the caveat that I have my phone on me and can answer whenever. They’re stricken with debilitating nausea and can’t leave the bed? I’ll play hooky. But I’ll try to keep a reasonable distance whenever possible (chatting with them from across the room, where I am planted in a chair that is far away from the bed) and use a surgical mask and gloves whenever approaching. Yes, that may sound heartless, but I still wanna be available to bring them whatever they need, just with my armor on. And I’m not me unless I’m a raging hypochondriac who thinks she’s coming down with what her boyfriend’s got every five seconds. The exception, of course, is XR, who I envision would get sick as a visual gag of having a “computer virus” and exhibit all the symptoms of a head cold without actually being contagious.

Tony is low-maintenance and insists he doesn’t need to be babied, so he’s not gonna even ask me for that much except company. Giovanni and XR are both absolutely complainers and going to whine at me every five minutes, which will inevitably make my heart melt.

As for when I’m sick…

XR loves playing “nurse” (kinda like I had him in this oneshot where I sprain my shoulder) and will get me everything I want. This is for somewhat selfish reasons so I will talk up how great of a boyfriend he is when I’m sick. Also, there’s a good chance that any medical supplies he brings me might be “borrowed without permission” from Star Command’s med bay. He WILL bring me illegal narcotics, and I WILL turn them down. He’ll also call in sick to work himself to take care of me - and also because it gives him an excuse to not turn in to work. We’ll likely end up binging shows cuddled up together if I’m not sleepy or too nauseous.

Tony isn’t all that attentive; he knows I’m a grown-up and can mostly handle myself. If I’m seriously incapacitated, he’ll watch over me, but in most cases, he’ll take off to get his own work done, same philosophy as me: call me if you need anything. He’s not gonna rush to bring me things, but he will do smaller gestures - brushing my hair back if I’m asleep before he leaves, etc. After business is taken care of, if I seem stable and not contagious, he’ll assist me in setting up on the couch with blankets aplenty on one end while he sits on the other, and really, all my f/o’s know that when I’m sick, I just wanna binge TV shows, so that’s what we do.

Giovanni freaks out. He also wants to get me everything I need, but he’s kinda not used to taking care of sick people, so he’ll be running around like a headless chicken asking me if I need various medical supplies that don’t at all apply to the kind of illness I have (such as a splint or a tourniquet). And soup. He will bring me so much soup. Hey, he’s good at making it, so I’m not gonna complain. He also does unfortunately think cuddling will make things better, and want to sit in bed next to me or kiss me for reassurance. I tell him over and over and over that that’s just gonna get him sick. Less than 24 hours later, he’s caught what I have, and I’m just “GEE, I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED.”

3. PETTY ARGUMENTS!

XR and I are built on petty arguments. He fulfills my fantasies of a relationship based on tsundere rivalry. We will find things to argue about for fun. This is how we get our kicks. I call him a dumbass, he calls me a narcissist, we don’t mean it (…mostly). He once caught me singing and dancing, thinking I was alone, and taped it and circulated it as a meme. He thinks it’s hilarious if I trip and fall. Conversely, I think it’s hilarious if he runs into things when he’s not looking where he’s going. I keep a running record of stupidest spelling mistakes he’s made and will trot them out whenever appropriate. At the end of the day, though, we set it all aside. Don’t let anyone know we’re actually nice to each other behind closed doors!

Tony and I basically argue about one petty thing: the fact that he CANNOT DRIVE. Is there canon precedent to this? Not really, except for the fact that his henchmen always seem to be driving the getaway car. But I have it in my head that the people in our operation who should be driving are me, Pal Joey, and Glasses. The person in our operation who should not be driving is Tony. Guess which one of the four asks most often to drive? Yeah. And sometimes he wears us down and we have to deal with him nearly killing us by driving 20 mph above the speed limit. IN DOWNTOWN NEW YORK. THE POLICE CHASE HASN’T EVEN STARTED. If there is one thing that is the subject of our married-couple spats, it is THIS.

Arguing with Giovanni is more of a minefield because we both have a habit of pretending we’re not sensitive about certain things until one of us rags on that certain thing and then it explodes. I have a oneshot idea, may or may not write it, in which he insults my “nerd glasses” like he always does with Sylvie, and I’m legitimately hurt but trying not to show it, so I engage in a rivalry argument with him that lasts all day, up until he jokingly says that I have delusions of grandeur and I just say “Well, at least I don’t think I’m qualified to be captain when I’m not” about myself when I realize that my lack of filter made it sound like I insinuated he wasn’t qualified to be captain, at which point he will actually start crying and insist to me that words hurt. Everything’s made better when we sit down and have an honest talk about what we said that hurt each other and then hug it out.

[lunar-goodness]

Quotes from movies/tv/other media that I say/use in conversation on a regular basis:

“Which way do you want to go?”

“No good, can’t hear you.”

“Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave!”

“They don’t even have dental.”

“Because she doesn’t love you!”

“Your Honor, the comedian clearly stated!”

“You can’t tell me how to live signs!”

“Why’dya do that?!”

“Look at all those chickens!”

“You’re gonna look at me and tell me that I’m wrong, am I wrong? She wore a crown and she came down in a bubble doug!”

“DISGUSTING!”

“Hi Billy!”

“Amuck Amuck Amuck!!”

“Mind yo business David!!”

“I’m looking through the windshield and I’m not gonna hit anyone, but no.”

“You ain’t gettin me to no secondary location!”

“SOUP SOUP!!”

“That seed salesman sure saw us comin. No he saw you comin!”

“Oh I’m not allowed to sneeze?!?”

“Back from the dead Fergus!”

“Those poor icecubes!”

“Could you not? Thanks”

“Dogs are people too Haley!”

“Either don’t be dumb or be dumb in silence, don’t involve me!”

“Cat! I’m a kitty cat! And I dance dance dance x2”

“DOES ANYBODY WANT A WIFE?!?”

“ I am confusion!!”

“You stole my pen!!”

“Beggars cannot be choosers m’lord”

“It’s called a lance... hellooo!”

“DO NOT SHH ME AND SPARE HIM NOW BEGON, GO!!!”

“Moles don’t eat dirt, worms eat dirt”

“You and your family will be cursed for always and eternity!”

“It’s so hot Sam, but I feel so cold”

“Well that’s too damn bad!”

“Paranoid!!”

“Tricky tricky tricky”

“Ah murdered by pirates, heart torn out and eaten, meet Victoria. Can’t quite decide what sounds more fun.”

“What do stars do?”

“My safe word is pineapple juice!”

“Honey, you missed auburn big time!”

“Boy you must be outside your mind!!”

“Who you callin’ a cooty queen, you lint licker!”

“It’s the leaning tower of cheesa!”

“Face it girls, I’m older and have more insurance.”

“There’s no crying in baseball!!”

“The staypuft marshmellow man.”

“Hey Benny, looks to me like you’re on the wrong side of the river!!!”

“I.... am a librarian!”

“I shall simply deny you the crown and... live.... forever!”

“After all that I do, after all I have done.. it’s never enough!”

“There was a bee.”

“Of course not mother, I’m only here for the food!”

“Apartipferdak... wha?... apartipferdak scabber, rapfer tik scabber!”

“He needs some MILK!!!”

“I will cut his heart out with a spoon!!!”

“Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”

“And daddy! They took my boot!!”

“No mas pantalones.”

“Did not know who it was fuckin with.”

“Ish guud!!”

“I want it now!!”

“Give me yor FUCKIN MONEY!!”

“Me having sterk??”

“Albuquerque! See I can do it too. Snorkel!”

“This is why mom doesn’t FUCKING love you!”

“Right to jail.”

“GO ON DARLIN CRYY!!”

“Be careful chilren that’s a lotta sodium”

“I’m legally blind!”

“Now you know I aint allowed to think”

“And then I’ll smash it with a hammer!”

“Say what again, say.what.again! I dare you I double dare you mother fucker say what one more goddamn time!”

“Ur no good duck! U’ll never be shit, ur just like ur father!”

“You Know Why!”

“Coincidence? I think not!!”

“You better get yo ass out this bed!!”

“Whatever are you talking about?”

“pushing pushing”

“Mistakes were made”

“YOU are NOT a very nice old MAN!!”

“She’s not alone.”

“Lookin strong John!”

“I am Steve Rogers”

“What is this contraption? May I have it?”

“Vere is dis ootah anyvay?”

“Onion. Pan. Sizzle.”

“That’s why we call it justice, because it’s just us!”

“The moon spirit is a gentle loving lady, she rules the sky with COMPASSION and… LUNAR GOODNESS!”

[marcusssanderson]

50 Letting Go Quotes For Finally Moving On

Looking for inspirational letting go quotes to help you make the tough walk forward?

One of the most difficult tasks any individual can master is the ability to let go of the past, and move forward towards their future.

There is a saying that depression is living in the past, anxiety is worrying about the future, and true contentment is living in the present. I know this to be true for my patients and in my work.

However, if an individual can learn to master the skills of letting go of past hurts and grievances they are holding on to, and to stop worrying about every possible case scenario in the future that can go wrong – then they can truly feel a sense of peace, and have a more successful and meaningful present, in all areas of their lives.

Below are some quotes on the ideas of letting go and moving on, that I hope will plant kernels of inspiration and grounding for your life. With this new found peace and lightness, great things can be accomplished, and your life can be more fully enjoyed.

Letting Go Quotes about Relationship

1.) “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

2.) “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

3.) “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

4.) “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” ― Shannon L. Alder

5.) “If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.” ― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

6.) “When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.” ― Shannon L. Alder

8.) “When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear…. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.” ― Gerald G. Jampolsky

9.) “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” ― Shannon L. Alder

10.) “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” ― C. JoyBell C.

11.) “There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.” ― C. JoyBell C.

12.) “If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.” ― Sarah Dessen, Dreamland

13.) “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” ― Jeffrey McDaniel

14.) “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

15.) “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” ― Shannon L. Alder

17.) “The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

18.) “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.” ― Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

19.) “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” ― FaraazKazi

Inspirational Letting Go quotes about Life

20.) “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

21.) “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” ― C. JoyBell C.

22.) “There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.” ― Terry Pratchett

23.) “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” ― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

24.) “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” ― Ann Landers

25.) “Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger” ― Sara Evans

26.) “Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

28.) “I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.” ― Turcois Ominek

29.) “I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward” ― Fridtjof Nansen

30.) “I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

31.) “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” ― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

32.) “A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it’s the most painful thing you’ll ever have to do and that you’ve ever done. But what’s yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it’ll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won’t have to put it back in the sky again.” ― C. JoyBell C.

34.) “One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

35.) “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Letting Go Quotes about Forgiveness

36.) “Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” ― Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear

37.) “Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it’s the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it’s frozen shut.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

38.) “The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.” ― Tammara Webber, Easy

39.) “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.

40.) “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, Because of Winn-Dixie

42.) “Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.” ― C. JoyBell C.

43.) “The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.” ― C. JoyBell C.

44.) “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.” ― TurcoisOminek

45.) “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Haruki Murakami

46.) “When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.” ― Kim Sowol

47.) “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists” ― John Green, Paper Towns

48.) “Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)” ― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy

50.) “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” ― Nicole Sobon, Program 13

Which letting go quotes stood out to you most and why?

Letting go and moving on of love, anger, expectations or burdens is never an easy thing to do. But it’s something we all need to learn if we want to discover better things in life. Hopefully, these wise words have given you strength and inspiration to do what you believe is right.

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