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The Beautiful Art of Letting Things Go...

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I have always been fascinated by good quotes and like many others things in my life my mother deserves credit for it.  As a kid, Every night before I went to sleep she would read to me Proverbs taken from the Bible often restricting herself to the ones that were within my scope of understanding. I developed a very deep sense of admiration for King Solomon who wrote and compiled these wise sayings. Just after his coronation as King of Israel the fact that he asked God for wisdom when he could have asked for anything else in the world only served to intensify my liking for him. Over the years I have heard, memorized and tried to incorporate in my life a good number of inspiring and interesting quotes, While many of these are written by well renowned poets and philosophers, there are some whose origin is essentially unknown, author-anonymous. Take for example these extremely popular lines - “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they