“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” – Haruki Murakami
“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
“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
“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.”
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”- Theodore Roosevelt
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”
“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
“Your past does not equal your future.” – Anthony Robbins
“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
“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
“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
“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.” – Lee Goff
“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
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
“I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.” – Turcois Ominek
“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.” – Fridtjof Nansen
“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!”
“Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the , and most people believe that the will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing.” – Anthony Robbins
“The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“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
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.” – Wayne Dyer
“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
“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart
“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energy moving forward together towards an answer.”- Denis Waitley
“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.” – Ralph Marston
“Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.” – Shannon L. Alder
“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” – Faraaz Kazi
“No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.” – Alexandra Elle
“Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.”
“You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” – Guy Finley
“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.” – Alice Walker
“Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day, it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.” – Tere Arigo
“There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.” – Jessica Hatchigan
“Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.” – Anais Nin
“The moment after being let go, when we can finally let it go, is the moment when love once again has hope.” – Brian MacLearn
“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?”
“You’ve got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don’t want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it’s always a process of letting go, one way or the other.” – Charles Bukowski
“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse
“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.”
“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.” – Turcois Ominek
“I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I’m moving on” – Rascal Flatts
“It’s effortless to let go of self-absorbed people. It’s challenging to let go of someone you care about and it’s exceedingly difficult to let go of an ideal and a belief in someone because what exacerbates the disappointment of finding out they weren’t who they presented themselves to be, is the betrayal of it.”
“It’s you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip—which means letting go of him.” – Melissa Bank
“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