Letting Go Quotes

Letting go can be one of the most difficult things to do, but it can also bring freedom and peace. Having a collection of letting go quotes about letting go is a great way to remind ourselves that sometimes we have to step back and make room for something better.

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse
“Things are as they are—we suffer because we imagined different.” – Rachel Wolchin
“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
“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.” – Jack Kornfield
“One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.” – Michael Cibenko
“Just because something made you happy in the past doesn’t mean you have to keep it forever.” – Melva Green
“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.” – Fridtjof Nansen
“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
“Enjoy what you can and ignore the rest. Let’s not waste any energy fighting things that are outside our control.” – Paulo Coelho
“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
“Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.” – Epictetus
“Give up your attachment to having things your way.” Iyanla Vanzant
“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
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle
“You can’t possibly embrace that new relationship, that new companion, that new career, that new friendship, or that new life you want, while you’re still holding on to the baggage of the last one. Let go… and allow yourself to embrace what is waiting for you right at your feet.” – Steve Maraboli
“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
“Sometimes holding on does more damage than letting go.” – Unknown
“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
“Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye.” – Beyonce Knowles
“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
“Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” – Valery Satterwhite
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
“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.
“Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.” – Paulo Coelho
“Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.” – Dawson’s Creek
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel
“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
“The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” – Shannon L. Alder
“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.” – Carl Jung
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.” – Epictetus
“We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.” – Leo F. Buscaglia
“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” ― Faraaz Kazi
“One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: ‘This too shall pass’.” – Alain de Botton
“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.” – Seneca
“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
“Your past does not equal your future.” – Anthony Robbins
“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.
“Whatever comes, let it come, what stays let stay, what goes let go.” – Papaji
“A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” – Jodi Picoult
“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
“You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” – Guy Finley
“The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.” – Edmond Mbiaka
“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
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
“Dare to live by letting go.” – Tom Althouse
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it’s gone for good.” – Eleanor Brownn
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” – C. Joybell C.
“Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I welcomed who I was and left behind who I was not.” – David Elliott
“I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.” ― Turcois Ominek
“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
“Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.” – Steve Maraboli
“It is through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”– Theodore Roosevelt
“Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.” – Gail Tsukiyama
“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.” – Rebecca Solnit
“Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.” – Goldie Hawn
“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
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” – Eckhart Tolle
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“The only way to keep a friend is to let go his stupid faults, and keep his silly love for you, with a bushel full of salt.” ― Fakeer Ishavardas
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
“There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.”– Jessica Hatchigan
“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.” — Alyson Noel
“You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.” – Angelina Jolie
“Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
“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
“Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” – Leo Buscaglia
“You can become better tomorrow than you are today, but it requires letting go of your past and learning from success and failure.” — Steve Gilliland
“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
“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
“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!” ― Steve Maraboli
“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett
“To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.”– Jack Kornfield
“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
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”– Dan Brown
“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
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”– Bryant McGill
“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
“Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.” — Melody Beattie
“Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.” – Anaïs Nin
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.” ― Terry Pratchett
“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
“‎All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”― Henry Havelock Ellis
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Haruki Murakami
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”– Walt Disney
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” ― Steve Maraboli
“I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.” ― Daniel Lubetzky
“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.”– Ralph Marston
“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? ”– Leo Buscaglia
“Life moves on and so should we.” – Spencer Johnson
“Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top – I think that’s the main thing for me to work on.” — Charlotte Gainsbourg
“The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.” – Shannon L. Alder
“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
“Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self-worth and faith are measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.”― Shannon L. Alder
“The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.”― Allison Janney
“Sometimes, especially when practising something like mindfulness, you need simply to let things unfold in their own time. If you’re anxious, you may just block your understanding. Mindfulness is about letting go, not trying harder.”― Shamash Alidina
There’s a weird freedom in letting go of what you lost and looking forward to the possibilities the empty space leaves behind.” ― James Lanman
“You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.” — T.D. Jakes
“The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there’s gold in letting go of them.” — John Seely Brown
“Recklessness comes from ego. Fearlessness comes from letting go.”― Shunya
“Pain will leave you when you let go.”― Jeremy Aldana
“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
“I let go of what stops me from moving forward and create space for better things to enter into my life.” ― Marge Castillon Di Blasio
“Let go. All will be lost, and in that is its beauty, its truth, all that we need.” ― Søren Sørenson
“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.” ― Sarah Ban Breathnach
“The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.” — Alan Cohen
“One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” — B. Nicole
“Not all wars are worth fighting. Sometimes you just have to let it go.”― Abhaidev
“Letting go of stress means that you can enjoy your life.” — Gabrielle Bernstein
“Think about what fears you have to let go or what beliefs you have to change or ingrain into, so that you can receive what you want and think about.” ― Adriana Claudia Milcov

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