Best Letting Go Quotes and Sayings

“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

“Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.” – Dawson’s Creek

“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett

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

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

“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 Brownn

“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

“Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard

“Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu

“Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.” – Katerina Stoykova Kleme

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Life moves on and so should we.” Spencer Johnson

“I think that the 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.

“Just as a mighty boulder stirs not with the wind, so the wise are never moved either by praise or blame.” – The Dhammapada

“Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti

“The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.” – Cleanthes

“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart

“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

“I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I’m moving on” – Rascal Flatts

“You can’t move forward if you’re still hanging on.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

“But since you been gone, I can breathe for the first time. I’m so moving on.” – Kelly Clarkson

“You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go.” – Drew Gerald

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Henry Havelock Ellis

“One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” – B. Nicole

“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward” – Fridtjof Nansen

“Let go of becoming but never let go of taking action. Stop expecting and start living.” – Maxime Lagacé

“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.” – Amit Ray

“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

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – E. M. Forster

“The world belongs to those who let go.” – Tao Te Ching

“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.” – Jack Kornfield

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Just because something made you happy in the past doesn’t mean you have to keep it forever.” – Melva Green

“Enjoy what you can and ignore the rest. Let’s not waste any energy fighting things that are outside our control.” – Paulo Coelho

“Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.” – Epictetus

“Give up your attachment to having things your way.” Iyanla Vanzant

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle

“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 Alder

“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

“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

“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.” – Alice Walker

“Sometimes people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.”

“When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?” – Shannon L. Alder

“No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions; when your affairs are under control you are free.” – Zhuangzi

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” – Robert Brault

“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.” – Turcois Ominek

“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” – Faraaz Kazi

“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” – Mandy Hale

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse

“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently, I could.” – Gabrielle Zevin

“She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.” – Julianna Baggott

“I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.” – Rashida Jones

“It’s you who has to hold on to earth. You have to tighten your grip—which means letting go of him.” – Melissa Bank

“Let it all go, see what stays.” – Osho

“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

“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

“One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: ‘This too shall pass’.” – Alain de Botton

“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma

“Whatever comes, let it come, what stays let stay, what goes let go.” – Papaji

“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

“You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” – 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

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Shannon L. Alder

“Sometimes holding on does more damage than letting go.” – Unknown

“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

“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

“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra, deepak chopra letting go quotes

“Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.” – Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.” – Gail Tsukiyama

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist

“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel

“The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“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