"Let go of the people who aren't prepared to love you!
This is the hardest thing you’ll have to do in your life, and it will also be the most important thing: stop giving your love to those who are not prepared to love you.
Stop having difficult conversations with people who don't want to change.
Stop showing up for people who are indifferent to your presence.
Stop loving people who aren't ready to love you.
I know your instinct is to do anything to win the appreciation of everyone who is around you, but it's also the impulse that will steal your time, energy, and mental, physical, and spiritual health...
When you start manifesting yourself in life, completely, with joy, interest and commitment, not everyone will be ready to find you in that place of pure sincerity...
That doesn't mean you have to change who you are. That means you have to stop loving people who are not prepared to love you.
If you are excluded, insulted, forgotten or easily ignored by the people to whom you offer your time, you don’t do yourself any favours by allowing them your energy and your life.
The truth is, you're not for everyone...
And that not everyone is for You... That's what makes this world so special, when you find the few people with whom you have a genuine friendship, love or a relationship...
You will know how precious this is... Because you have experienced what isn’t...
But the more time you spend trying to get someone to love you who can’t... the more time you waste, depriving yourself of the possibility of this connection with someone else...
There are billions of people on this planet, and many of them will find themselves at the same level as you, at their level, with their vibration, from where they stand...
But ...
The more you stay involved with people who use you as a pillow, a secondary option, a therapist and a strategy for their emotional healing...
The longer you stay out of the community you wish for.
Maybe if you stop showing up, you won’t be wanted...
Maybe if you stop trying, the relationship might end too...
Maybe if you stop texting, your phone will stay dark for days and weeks...
Maybe if you stop loving someone, the love between you will dissolve... That doesn't mean you ruined a relationship!
That means all this relationship had, was the energy that YOU and YOU ALONE expended to keep it afloat.
That is not love.
That is attachment.
It's wanting to give a chance to those who don't deserve it!
The most precious and important thing you have in your life is your energy and your time and both are limited...
It's your energy!
What you give every day is what will be become more and more in your life.
It is the ones to whom you give your time and your energy, who will define your existence.
When you realize this, you will start to understand why you get so anxious, when you spend your time with people who are not right for you, and in activities, places, situations that are not right for you.
You will begin to realize that the most important thing you can do for your life, for yourself, and for everyone you know, is to protect your energy more fiercely than anything else.
Turn your life into a safe sanctuary, where only people who are "compatible" with you are allowed.
You are not responsible for saving people. You are not responsible for convincing them that they need to be saved. It's not your job to exist for people and give them your life, little by little, moment by moment!
Because if you feel bad, if you feel you have a duty, if you feel obligated, you are the root of it all by your insistence, by being afraid that they will not return the favors that you granted them... It is your sole fact to realize that you are the loved one of your destiny, and to accept the love that you think you deserve.
Decide that you deserve a true friendship, real commitment, and complete love with people who are healthy and prosperous.
Then wait... just for a moment...
And look how everything starts to change...
This quote is attributed to Anthony Hopkins, but is said to contain quotes and elements of an essay written by Brianna Wiest's essay in Thought Catalogue Magazine.
