Myrtle Reed Quotes

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late." "No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

No man can lose what he never had.

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

'Teenage Dream' was the hardest breakup for me.