Letting Go Quotes

Michael Bassey Johnson

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Haruki Murakami

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Jourdane Erasquin

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

Mandy Hale

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

Deborah Reber

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.

Kate DiCamillo

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.

Sara Evans

Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger

Deborah Cox

So I placed my heart under lock and key
To take some time, and take care of me
But I turn around and you're standing here

Sarah Dessen

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.

Turcois Ominek

I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.

Faraaz Kazi

The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.

C. JoyBell C.

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything
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.

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that
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.

Jourdane Erasquin

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.

Karl Popper

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

Jenim Dibie

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

Tom Althouse

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Tom Althouse

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

Tom Althouse

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

Tom Althouse

More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.

Agnostic Zetetic

Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.

Jourdane Erasquin

There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.

Lois Lowry

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Ram Mohan

Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.

Ann Landers

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.

A. Lynn

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

Goldie Hawn

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.

Jourdane Erasquin

With God as my witness and love as my guide, I did all the best that I could. I'm sorry I wasn't everything you ever wanted. I'm sorry I wasn't enough. If I could only reach the sun and the stars, I would have picked one for you in a heartbeat.

Tony Schwartz

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.

Nadège Richards

This is a story about survival.
Letting go and learning to let in.
Getting along and moving on.
The truth about life.
The things left unsaid...

Rick Riordan

But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn't want to be without her.

Mandy Hale

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

Tammara Webber

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.

Kim Sowol

When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go.

Mandy Hale

One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.

Mia Asher

Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.

Nicole Sobon

Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.

Gayle Forman

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

Turcois Ominek

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

Khushwant Singh

Not forever does the bulbul sing
In balmy shades of bowers,
Not forever lasts the spring
Nor ever blossom the flowers.
Not forever reigneth joy,
Sets the sun on days of bliss,
Friendships not forever last,
They know not life, who know not this.

Mandy Hale

The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.

Turcois Ominek

Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for.

Robert Tew

There’s no need to look back. What’s behind you is smaller than what’s in front you.

Amit Ray

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

Robert Tew

If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self.

Thich Nhat Hanh

We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.

Lee Goff

Sometimes the strongest thing you will ever do will be to let go of someone. It will be painful, you will suffer guilt, and you will second-guess yourself, but for your own sanity and quality of life, there will come a time where you hand them to God, with your love, and trust Him to be who and what He is. May our Lord comfort you.

C. JoyBell C.

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.

C. JoyBell C.

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.

One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!

Sue Fitzmaurice

You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.

Tom Althouse

Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.

Tom Althouse

My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.

Lee Goff

Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed a tear, turn around and look for the new door that's opened. It's a sign that you're no longer that person you were, it's time to change into who you are. It's going to be okay.

Melissa Bank

You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will require all of your energy.

It's you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip - which means letting go of him.

Vironika Tugaleva

To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.

Avis J. Williams

Your reality is a reflection of yourself

Avis J. Williams

respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start to express your emotions to others, this is essential to a healthy wellbeing.

Ena Snow

The bottom line is this; when one person stops being a part of your life, another one will come, and fill that empty space. Leave the ones who left in the past, right where they belong, and never look back.

Mitch Albom

How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?

Auliq Ice

Everything started as nothing.

Temitayo A

It just happens that a lot of us have been through too much that is even too less than our age..and what happens is we cannot but remember it and all we think about is how to make now and after better than before.

Roy Bennett

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.

Michele L. Rivera

This is the difference time creates
We bleed our misbehavior
And in silent prayer, repent
It is only necessary that we fall away again
Into love

Gerald G. Jampolsky

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Hal Tipper

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…

David W. Earle

There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.

Stasi Eldredge

The issue is fear. But the deeper issue is trust. Can we trust our lives, our futures, and the lives of those we love to God? Can we trust a God we can't control? Can we trust this God whose take on life and death and suffering and joy is so very different from our own? Yes. Yes, we can. Because we know him. And we know he is good.

Erica Goros

Fear is just like mist. Don’t let it disorient you from living outside God's palm. Acknowledge it, then take any one step in any one direction... and repeat.

Mary E. DeMuth

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

Elisabeth Elliot

If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.

Bryan Penberthy

It could be the sound of each name he knows/curling to ash in his chest’s aortic furnace one after another, year after year instructing him/in the patient work of letting go. Even still/there are things it is reluctant to unclasp./How the Osage orange trunks and bare limbs/glow in the scattered light like veins of fire.

Jack Kornfield

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.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to
Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.

Marie Coulson

Falling in love is easy, letting that love go, is hard. But your heart will always have the right answer. You just have to listen to it and figure out what it’s telling you

Jourdane Erasquin

What they have been teaching us is wrong. Yes, we do have control over our choices. Why? Because life gave us the freedom to choose. The only downside to this freedom are the insatiable consequences we shall have to face because of the choices we learned to embrace.

Denise Roy

My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and set up my expectations accordingly. An important part of spiritual practice is to learn to let go, to recognize that Plan A exists only in my head.

Henry Havelock Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Rebecca Solnit

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

Albert Nolan

Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as “purity of heart” or as the process of becoming “poor in spirit.

Kellie Elmore

No matter what, we have to keep moving forward, even if we have to crawl.

Kathryne Kennedy

Yet he hadn’t asked for anything that he hadn’t been willing to give himself. - Mahri

Isabel Lopez

I eventually came to understand that in harboring the anger, the bitterness and resentment towards those that had hurt me, I was giving the reins of control over to them. Forgiving was not about accepting their words and deeds. Forgiving was about letting go and moving on with my life. In doing so, I had finally set myself free.

Ally Carter

Do
you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the
body’s physical response to imminent harm.
It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our
hand off the stove or let go of the broken
glass.

Jeremy Aldana

Pain will leave you, when you let go

RSCruz

Thank you for the pain. At least I am no longer afraid to face it next time.

Edmond Mbiaka

No matter how strong you plan to be, you can never subdue the pain that comes with the grudges you refuse to let go.

Arti Honrao

Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay, they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.

Vironika Tugaleva

Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous.

Yvonne Pierre

In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the “excuses” and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.

May Sarton

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

Emily Murdoch

I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?

Jasinda Wilder

Let me go!” she growls. “No.” “Let me fucking go, Colton.” Her voice is tiny, scared, vulnerable, and vehement. “You let go.” “Why?” A hitch in her voice. “Because holding on to it is killing you.

Marianne Williamson

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

C. JoyBell C.

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

Turcois Ominek

Sometimes you have to let go in order to receive; after all the universe naturally acquires balance.

Sue Fitzmaurice

You can't fight the whole world, and you can't keep fighting everyone in your own world. It's not about giving up, it's about letting go.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

Elizabeth Kim

I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality.

Mandy Hale

The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.

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