Holding on to the past will only serve to impair your future, let these letting go quotes help you move on. It’s often hard to let things go that matter a great deal to us, but in order to best heal, we must learn to let go.
Whether it’s a relationship, a change in life circumstances, or simply something that is no longer serving you well, letting go is something that you must do in order to heal and move on.
Below are some letting go quotes that I hope will plant kernels of inspiration and grounding for your life. With this newfound peace and lightness, great things can be accomplished, and your life can be more fully enjoyed
Letting Go Quotes
1. I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward. – Fridtjof Nansen
2. 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
3. When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness. – Kid Cudi
4. There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. – Kate DiCamillo
5. 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. – unknown
6. When you accept change, let go, and free yourself from fear of the unknown, you will begin to see your life as an exciting adventure. – Joe Keane
7. To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let ourselves be with compassion, things come and go on their own. – Jack Kornfield
8. A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath. – Anthony Liccione
9. Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay. – Robert Greene
10. Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. – Tony Schwartz
Letting Go Of The Past Quotes
11. Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. – Alan Watts
12. 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
13. 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
14. Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
15. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt
16. 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
17. 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
18. Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over. – Nicole Sobon
19. Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down. – Roy T. Bennett
20. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. – UNKNOWN
Let It Go Quotes
21. It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. – Henry Ford
22. In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. ― Deepak Chopra
23. 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
24. 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
25. Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. – Eckhart Tolle
26. Even on my weakest days, I get a little bit stronger.– Sara Evans
27. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. – Herman Hesse
28. 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
29. 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.
30. You cannot allow your heart to be pinned to the shirtsleeve of a man you are no longer in a relationship with. You cannot allow yourself to hold onto what needs to be let go of. – Marisa Donnelly
Quotes About Letting People Go
31. 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
32. We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell
33. Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. – C.S. Lewis
34. 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
35. Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you. – Shannon L. Alder
36. Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. – G.K. Chesterton
37. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. – H. Havelock Ellis
38. Things are as they are—we suffer because we imagine differently. – Rachel Wolchin
39. 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.
40. Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? – Mary Manin Morrissey
Quotes About Letting Someone Go
41. Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. – Tony Schwartz
42. In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. – Deepak Chopra
43. 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
44. It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving its purpose in your life.– Chinonye J. Chidolue
45. 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
46. 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
47. If you’re going through hell, keep going because sooner or later you will go past it. – Winston Churchill
48. 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
49. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. – Uredo ojo.
50. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Let Him Go Quotes
51. 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. C. JoyBell C.
52. If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go. – binny
53. 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
54. 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
55. 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. – Tao Te Ching
56. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. – Lao Tzu
57. Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on, and letting go. – Nicole Lyons
58. 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
59. Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye. – Beyonce Knowles
Letting Go Of A Relationship Quotes
60. Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. – Victor Kiam
61. Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. – Steve Maraboli
62. Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. – Aaron
63. Sometimes you just have to make peace with your past in order to keep your future from becoming a constant battle. – Susan Gale
64. I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. – Carl Jung
65. Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. – Daphne Rose Kingma
