Do you know you need to move on with your life, but need a push? These quotes about Letting Go may do the trick!
It’s time to let go of the past
When it comes to personal growth, letting go is one of the most important things you can do. It’s not always easy, but it’s worth it.
Some people find it difficult to let go, whether it’s of a material possession, an unhealthy relationship, or negative thoughts and emotions. But learning how to let go is an essential part of moving on and creating a better life for yourself.
These quotes about letting go can serve as inspiration and motivation as you work to release what’s no longer serving you
Quotes on When To Let Go
Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
– Dave Mustaine
The greatest act of loving another person is letting go and wishing for their happiness, regardless of satisfying you.
– Ritu Ghatourey
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
It’s tough to let go and move on from bad relationships, but so is every other good thing in life.
– Unknown
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
Whatever way our stories end, I know you’ll have rewritten mine by being my friend.
– Unknown
Life moves on and so should we.
– Spencer Johnson
The path to freedom is illuminated by the bridges you have burned, adorned by the ties you have cut, and cleared by the drama you have left behind. Let go. Be free.
– Steve Maraboli
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.
– Unknown
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
Don’t let the heart that didn’t love you, keep you from the one that will.
– Unknown
Letting go doesn’t mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.
– Mandy Hale
Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward.
– Erika Taylor
Sometimes you need to give up on people, not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.
– Jennifer Green
Best Letting Go Quotes
Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.
– Shannon L. Alder
Cutting people off doesn’t have limits. Family can get cut off too if they are causing you stress. Eliminate any negativity in your circle.
– Unknown
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
Friendship is delicate as a glass once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.
– Waqar Ahmed
Making a big life change can be scary but living with regret is always scarier.
– Unknown
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Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.
– Joybell
You don’t have to leave your whole family in the past, just those who don’t deserve a place in your future.
– Unknown
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
– Steve Maraboli
You can only lose what you cling to.
– Buddha
Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.
– Jackson Kiddard
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past.
– Emily Giffin
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
– Terry Pratchett
Understand that people change and sometimes they are no longer compatible with our lives. We just have to learn to accept it and move on.
– Unknown
Fighting for a relationship is worth it but you should avoid it when you are the only one fighting.
– Unknown
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
– Carl Jung
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Let Go Quotes
Some think that holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it’s letting go.
– Herman Hesse
If the family you choose before your birth no longer supports your path towards fulfilling your true destiny, it is never too late to find a new tribe.
– Anthon St. Maarten
I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.
– Fridtjof Nansen
Sometimes, it’s very hard to move on, but once you move on, you’ll realise it was the best decision you have ever made.
– Unknown
When you say No to a toxic family, you say Yes to loving yourself.
– Unknown
Don’t look back. You’re not going that way.
– Unknown
You’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.
– Tori Amos
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
Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
– Unknown
Every time your heart is broken a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.
– Patti Roberts
The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I began to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.
– Tammara Webber
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
You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.
– Unknown
I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.
– Sara Evans
Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye.
– Beyonce Knowles
One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss, or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.
– Unknown
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Let Go Of Quotes
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
You must be strong enough to know that love will come to you when you are ready. You must be strong enough to know when to say goodbye, and know that letting go is not weak.
– Marisa Donnelly
Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flashed through my mind, but I just smiled and said I used to.
– Unknown
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
– Guy Finley
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
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
When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.
– Kim Sowol
Sometimes it’s better to just move on instead of being the only one who is willing to fix things.
– Unknown
It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
– Steve Maraboli
When you walk away from a toxic family, you begin the journey of finding your true people.
– Unknown
Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.
– Carrie Underwood
It’s sad when you’ve already learnt to be a part of someone’s life and then you end up being strangers.
– Unknown
Today, expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realizing 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 Dessen
The moment your friends cease to share their complications with you, know that is the moment you lost your prime place in their hearts.
– Unknown
It is time to move on when your love for someone has left you worse than the person you were when you found them.
– Unknown
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.
– Ralph Marston
Quotes on How To Let Go
It always amazes me how swiftly problems can be solved, once you start cutting things off people.
– Joe Abercrombie
One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.
– 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
Ending the toxic cycle within your own life isn’t easy. When you don’t come from a healthy family, you do your best to ensure a healthy one comes from you.
– Steve Maraboli
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
– Lao Tzu
Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.
– Daphne Rose Kingma
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
– Steve Maraboli
It’s okay to cut ties with toxic friends and family you’ve got to prioritize your own well―being.
– Brenden Dilley
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
Sometimes we need to forget some people from our past because of one simple reason, they just don’t belong to our future.
– Unknown
In life we never lose friends, we only learn who the true ones are.
– Unknown
Time flies, people change. You’re not always needed. There are times to move forward and places to let go.
– Unknown
Whatever comes, let it come. Whatever stays, let it stay. Whatever goes, let it go.
– Unknown
If you want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
– Michael Bassey Johnson
Love them from a distance. Pray for them, wish them well, but don’t allow them to abuse you.
– Kimber Waul
In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past but you will find yourself.
– Deepak Chopra
Sometimes you have to let go quotes
What’s done is done, what’s gone is gone, one of life’s lessons is always moving on. it’s OK to look back and think of fond memories but keep moving forward.
– Roy T. Bennett
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.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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
It is tough to let go of someone you can’t live without. But living with someone who can live without you, is much worse.
– Anon
Sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be you just have to let go.
– Unknown
Walk away from a bad relationship before it makes you walk away from yourself.
– Unknown
You can miss a person every day and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.
– Tara Westover
Friendship that can end never really began.
– Pablilins Syrns
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.
If you love something so much, let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn’t it never was.
– Albert Schweitzer
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.
– Gayle Forman
Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.
– Turcois Ominek
Letting go isn’t a one―time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.
– Dawson’s Creek
Life is a balance of holding on a small letting go.
– Unknown
Toxic family relationships spoil all other relationships unless you remove the poison before it’s too late.
– Unknown
Time to let go quotes
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
One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break―up.
– Mandy Hale
You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
– Guy Finley
The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
– Faraaz Kazi
If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
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
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
– Steve Maraboli
The only reason you won’t let go of what is making you sad is because it was the only thing that made you happy.
– Lily Amis
Try to let people go because every person in your journey is meant to be there but not all of them are meant to stay in it until the end.
– Unknown
Some friendships will expire their time instead of pretending to be cool, learn to let go and move on.
– Unknown
You may feel guilty for leaving your family behind, but you’ll never regret moving yourself forward.
– Unknown
Whether it was a friendship or a relationship, the truth is when it ends it gives you a heartbreak.
– Unknown
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
– Havelock Ellis
Sometimes you have to give up on people, not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.
– Unknown
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.
– Bill Cosby
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
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Quotes To Remind Us Growth Extends Forward
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Spend your energy moving forward together towards an answer.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.
You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.
There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.
The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
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