Letting Go Quotes
Some of the best letting go quotes have helped the brokenhearted and souls get through some of their most difficult times.
Whether in love, in close relationships, or when you have lost someone, letting go and moving on can be your most difficult decision.
It is always the best decision to move on in a relationship when there is no longer any love or when continuing with it is painful. But it needs lots of courage to gather yourself up and move on.
Find the inspiration and encouragement you need in these words, or share them with a friend or loved one who is in need of it.
Quotes About Letting Go
1.) Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
2.) When you let go, you are truly free.
Unknown
3.) 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
4.) You don’t live in the past; you take a sledgehammer to it to see what stands so that you can build on it.
Samuel L. Drew
5.) Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than hanging on.
Eckhart Tolle
Take a Walk
6.) Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.
Daphne Rose Kingma
7.) 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
8.) Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
9.) I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.
Jeffrey McDaniel
10.) If you want to fly in the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go of the past that drags you down.
Amit Ray
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Kiss Goodbye
11.) Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
12.) I think that you never fall out of love with somebody; you just let go and move on.
Ashley Rickards
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Moving Forward
13.) I think that power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.
Robert Downey Jr.
14.) Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
15.) Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
Bryant McGill
16.) 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
17.) If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
18.) Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
Victor Kiam
19.) Sometimes, you have to take a step back to move forward.
Erika Taylor
20.) The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
Faraaz Kazi
Time to Move On
21.) Life moves on and so should we.
Spencer Johnson
22.) You have to decide when it is time to move on.
Wendy Whelan
23.) There is always time to move on.
Jock Stein
24.) It was time to move on, to dance with life again.
Jacqueline Winspear
25.) I just feel that you reach a point when it’s time to move on.
LaVell Edwards
26.) A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.
Darren Johnson
27.) Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, the grass is growing.
Tom Petty
28.) Your soul tells you when it’s time to move on.
Oprah Winfrey
Letting Go Quotes To Move Forward
29.) In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
Deepak Chopra
30.) We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
31.) These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
Najwa Zebian
32.) Sometimes, the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.
Nicole Sobon
33.) There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.
Jessica Hatchigan
34.) Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.
Mandy Hale
35.) All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
36.) Sooner or later, we’ve all got to let go of our past.
Dan Brown
Pushing Forward
37.) Anyone can give up. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
Chris Bradford
38.) We ultimately get to know ourselves a little bit better by pushing forward.
Justin Lin
39.) Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things will always work out.
Gordon B. Hinckley
40.) Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
Steve Earle
41.) Letting go isn’t a one-time thing; it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.
Dawson’s Creek
42.) The world breaks everyone, and then some become strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
Forging Ahead
43.) Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you.
Shannon L. Alder
44.) The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
Steve Maraboli
45.) 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
46.) You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
47.) Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
Eckart Tolle
48.) A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
49.) 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
Hard To Let Go Quotes
50.) The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.
Tammara Webber
51.) 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
52.) No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Haruki Murakami
53.) Offering yourself forgiveness and compassion for what has happened will help you to let go of the past so that you can move more fully into the future.
Alison Cardy
54.) 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
55.) 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 Brown
56.) 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
Short Letting Go Quotes To Help You Move Forward
57.) Life moves on and so should we.
Spencer Johnson
58.) Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
59.) Let your body relax, and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
Jack Kornfield
60.) Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
61.) Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
62.) Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Steve Maraboli
Strength in Letting Go Quotes
63.) 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 Lander
64.) A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.
Anthony Liccione
65.) Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
66.) 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
67.) One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.
Brigitte Nicole
68.) My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say ‘I can do this’ even when you know you can’t.
Stephen King
69.) It is through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt
Helpful Quotes To Let Go
70.) 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
71.) 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
73.) Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax, and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
Jack Kornfield
74.) There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.
Unknown
75.) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly, your mind is more open.
Ralph Marston
76.) We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.
Marianne Williamson
Celebrities on Letting Go Quotes
77.) 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
78.) 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
79.) 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
80.) It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J. K. Rowling
Change and Letting Go
81.) 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
82.) 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
83.) Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.
Roy T. Bennett
84.) When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Catherine Ponder
85.) Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering.
Hal Tipper
Advise To Move Forward
86.) Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
87.) This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi
88.) One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change.
Unknown
89.) 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
90.) Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.
Wayne L. Misner
91.) What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you, and you sink into darkness when there’s nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it’s then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.
Marc Halperin
92.) The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.
Edmond Mbiaka
93.) Maybe you should just accept it and move on.
Winna Efendi
Accept Letting Go Quotes
94.) Uproot the weeds of stressful thoughts and negative emotions when they are still small, before they grow and harm you.
Remez Sasson
95.) It’s not a matter of letting go – you would if you could. Instead of “Let it go,” we should probably say “Let it be.”
Jon Kabat Zinn
96.) 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
97.) When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.
Lao Tzu
98.) Sometimes, people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.
Unknown
99.) Moving on means we have to protect ourselves.
Jojo Moyes
100.) Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
Robert Brault
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Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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