Ann Voskamp Quotes

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.

Having no expectations is a really good thing.

Let our scars fall in love.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.

Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.

It's not a bad Thing to fall in Love.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater

When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

Love is letting go of fear.