This post contains some of the best quotes about letting go.
Quotes About Letting Go
1. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” ― Faraaz Kazi
2. “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.” ― TurcoisOminek
3. “Your past does not equal your future.”– Anthony Robbins
4. “You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
5. “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.” – C. Joybell C.
6. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” – Mandy Hale
7. “You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go.”― Drew Gerald
8. “You need to let go of the resentment inside of you and don’t let it shape the way your life will be in the future.” ― Heather Rose
9. “You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” ― Roy T. Bennett
10. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically.” ― Joel Osteen
11. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” ― Steve Maraboli
12. “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
13. “You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.” – Candace Bushnell
14. “You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” – Guy Finley
15. “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”― Jojo Moyes
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16. “You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.” — T.D. Jakes
17. “You can’t possibly embrace that new relationship, that new companion, that new career, that new friendship, or that new life you want, while you’re still holding on to the baggage of the last one. Let go… and allow yourself to embrace what is waiting for you right at your feet.” – Steve Maraboli
18. “You can’t look back — you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”– Jodi Picoult
19. “You can’t hold on to the past and expect to grow as a human being.”― Marty Rubin
20. “You can’t expect to move forward if your emergency break is on.” ― Angela Cecilia
21. “You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.” — Joel Osteen
22. “You can become better tomorrow than you are today, but it requires letting go of your past and learning from success and failure.” — Steve Gilliland
23. “You can always make the choice to let go and start over – you are the one who has to make that decision.” — Kate Summers
24. “You are not giving up when you let go, you are moving on, there is a big difference.” – Catherine Pulsifer
25. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
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26. “Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.”― Steve Maraboli
27. “Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” – Leo Buscaglia
28. “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 unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing.” – Anthony Robbins
29. “When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.” ― Kim Sowol
30. “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
31. “When we go back into the past and rake up all the troubles we’ve had, we end up reeling and staggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.”– Pam W. Vredevelt
32. “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
33. “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
34. “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
35. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” – Eckhart Tolle
36. “What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?” — Brene Brown
37. “What’s past is prologue, and the world awaits.” ― Lisa Mantchev
38. “What’s done is done.” ― Hilliard MacBeth
39. “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
40. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
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41. “We must have the courage to let go of the past if we are going to grasp the future.” ― David DeNotaris
42. “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
43. “We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don’t have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.” – Gay Hendrix
44. “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
45. “We have our future to explore. We won’t be slaves to the past.” ― Tillie Cole
46. “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.
47. “Trees still grow after letting dead things go.” ― Darnell Lamont Walker
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48. “Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize 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. (January )” ― Sarah Ban Breathnach
49. “To wander is to be alive.” – Roman Payne
50. “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
51. “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.” – Dave Pelzer
52. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” ― Roy T. Bennett
53. “Think about what fears you have to let go or what beliefs you have to change or ingrain into, so that you can receive what you want and think about.” ― Adriana Claudia Milcov
54. “Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.” – Oprah Winfrey
55. “Things are as they are—we suffer because we imagined different.” – Rachel Wolchin
56. “There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.”– Jessica Hatchigan
57. “There’s a weird freedom in letting go of what you lost and looking forward to the possibilities the empty space leaves behind.” ― James Lanman
58. “There’s a victory in letting go of your expectations.” — Mike White
59. “There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over – and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.” – Ellen Goodman
60. “There is nowhere to go but on.” ― Celeste Ng
61. “There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.” – Elizabeth Berg
62. “There is absolutely no beauty in holding onto something that you’re supposed to let go of.”― Sai Pradeep
63. “There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.” ― Don Miguel Ruiz
64. “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
65. “There are two ways to be. One is at war with reality and the other is at peace.” – Byron Katie
66. “There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.” ― Terry Pratchett
67. “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.” – Unknown
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68. “There are a number of things to let go of in life. One of these things is worry of which there is nothing more unproductive or personally debilitating.” — Catherine Pulsifer
69. “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
70. “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
71. “The world belongs to those who let go.” — Tao Te Ching
72. “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.” ― Tammara Webber
73. “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
74. “The sound of geese flying overhead is the sound of life moving on.” ― Marty Rubin
75. “The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.” — Sonali Bendre
76. “The past always looks better than it was because it isn’t here.”– Finley Peter Dunne
77. “The only way to keep a friend is to let go his stupid faults, and keep his silly love for you, with a bushel full of salt.” ― Fakeer Ishavardas
78. “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
79. “The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.” – Shannon L. Alder
80. “The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
81. “The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.” — Alan Cohen
82. “The moment after being let go, when we can finally let it go, is the moment when love once again has hope.” – Brian MacLearn
83. “The hardest part is what to leave behind, … It’s time to let go!” ― A. A. Milne
84. “The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there’s gold in letting go of them.” — John Seely Brown
85. “The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”― Lalah Delia
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86. “The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.” – Max De Pree
87. “The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” ― Steve Maraboli
88. “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
89. “The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.” ― Mary Manin Morrissey
90. “The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new ideas. You cannot walk forward by looking backward. New wine cannot be put into old bottles, for the Bible states that the old bottles will break. You intuitively know what should depart from your life.” – Raymond Charles Barker
91. “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.” ― C. JoyBell C.
92. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” ― Steve Maraboli
93. “The art of letting go is art in its purest form.”– Meredith Pence
94. “The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.”– Edmond Mbiaka
95. “Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye.” – Beyonce Knowles
96. “Take stock of everyone who has ever wronged you in any way, regardless of how severe or recent it may have been, and make the choice to let go. Forgiveness is an act of the heart.” ― Wayne Dyer
97. “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”– Dan Brown
98. “Sometimes, you have to let things go. Sometimes, you have to stop caring for a minute.”– Trina Etmanskie
99. “Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward.” – Erika Taylor
100. “Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.” ― Socrates
101. “Sometimes you definitely need to just let go. You need to sort of forget everything.” ― Thea Gilmore
102. “Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.” – Gail Tsukiyama
103. “Sometimes the only way to get a grip is by learning to let go.”― Curtis Tyrone Jones
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104. “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” ― Nicole Sobon
105. “Sometimes people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.”- Jackson Kiddard
106. “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.” – Melissa Marr
107. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” — Eckhart Tolle
108. “Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.” ― Steve Maraboli
109. “Sometimes letting go is braver than holding on until you break.”― Rebekah Crane
110. “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
111. “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
112. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse
113. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” ― Stephen King
114. “So we’re in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and… basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.” — Adrianne Lenker
115. “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
116. “Revenge stems from darkness. It won’t make you whole.” ― Shina Reynolds
117. “Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.”– Agnostic Zetetic
118. “Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.” — Marianne Williamson
119. “Rehashing the past wouldn’t change anything. Time to move forward.” ― Zena Wynn
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120. “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
121. “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
122. “Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.”– Beverly Mitchell
123. “Our scars make us who we are. Wear them proudly, and move forward.”― Jane Linfoot
124. “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
125. “One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that make you sad.” – Unknown
126. “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
127. “One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.” ― Mandy Hale
128. “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
129. “Offering yourself forgiveness and compassion for what has happened will help you to let go of the past so that you can move more fully into the future.” – Alison Cardy
130. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” — Guy Finley
131. “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists” ― John Green
132. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”– Maria Robinson
133. “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Haruki Murakami
134. “No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.”― Shannon L. Alder
135. “Moving on means we have to protect ourselves.” ― Jojo Moyes
136. “Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.”– Katerina Stoykova Klemer
137. “Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.” — Russell Simmons
138. “Memory looks back in order to move forward.” – Marty Rubin
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139. “Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or ‘mind traffic’ that gets in the way of just whatever is between you and space and consciousness.” — Trudie Styler
140. “Many new things open when we let go of our own imposed limitations and go into a place of the nonknowing of a beginner.” ― Patricia Heller
141. “Make a conscious effort to let go of fear and act from a sense of consciousness that will empower and protect you. You are strong. You are greater than the fear!” ― Les Brown
142. “Love yourself enough to move forward from whatever mistakes you may have made.”– Akiroq Brost
143. “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.” ― Mia Asher
144. “Life only demands from you the strength you possess.” – Dag Hammarskjold
145. “Life moves on and so should we.” – Spencer Johnson
146. “Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”– Bryant McGill
147. “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass – It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”– Vivian Greene
148. “Life is like a river, if you cannot let go of the past, it will drag you down the stream.”― Amit Ray
149. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”― Robert Brault
150. “Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it’s the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it’s frozen shut.” ― Gayle Forman
151. “Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top – I think that’s the main thing for me to work on.” — Charlotte Gainsbourg
152. “Letting go of the bad memories of the past can really help you have a free feeling now while you take each day into the future.” — Zac Dixon
153. “Letting go of stress means that you can enjoy your life.” — Gabrielle Bernstein
154. “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
155. “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
156. “Letting go means freedom from unpleasant memories.” – Remez Sasson
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157. “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
158. “Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.” – Dawson’s Creek
159. “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
160. “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.”– Arti Honrao
161. “Letting go is an energetic process that moves us in a different flow of reality beyond the illusion and into more of a free-flowing liberation space.” – Christine McCormick Day
162. “Letting go is also a matter of self-worth.”― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
163. “Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.” — Melody Beattie
164. “Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” – Nhat Hanh
165. “Letting go follows our realization that holding on is of no further use!” — Guy Finley
166. “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
167. “Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.” – Mandy Hale
168. “Letting go brings a feeling of lightness and freedom, like taking a heavy rock off your shoulders.” – Remez Sasson
169. “Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.” – Paulo Coelho
170. “Let the things of long ago drift away on the water.”― Alan Brennert
171. “Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
172. “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.” — Leo Buscaglia PhD
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173. “Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.” – Ralph Marston
174. “Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.” – Joel Osteen
175. “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.” – Jack Kornfield
176. “Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.” ― Roy T. Bennett
177. “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
178. “Let go of becoming but never let go of taking action. Stop expecting and start living.” – Maxime Lagacé
179. “Let go and just do your own work.” – Ajahn Chah
180. “Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.” – Tom Althouse
181. “Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.” ― C. JoyBell C.
182. “Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” – Valery Satterwhite
183. “Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.” – Wayne L. Misner
184. “Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.” — Epictetus
185. “Just because something made you happy in the past doesn’t mean you have to keep it forever.” — Melva Green
186. “Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a point at which you finally decide to let go.” – Wilfred James Dolor
187. “It’s the way you fall you. Gotta let yourself go.”― Melville Shavelson
188. “It’s sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of you life starts with goodbye.” – Carrie Underwood
189. “It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”– George Eliot
190. “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
191. “It took a while to understand the beauty of just letting go.” ― Taylor Swift
192. “It is your courage that supports your ability to let go of deadly attitudes, change the way you organize your time, change your relationships and change who and what you are.” — S. Walston
193. “It is through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”– Theodore Roosevelt
194. “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” ― Steve Maraboli
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195. “It is important for us to let go of the hurt and pain our past left behind and open up to the possibilities of what the future may hold.” — Ron Walker
196. “It is by giving the freedom to the other, that is by letting go, we gain our own freedom back.”– Aleksandra Ninkovic
197. “It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.” – J. C. Watts
198. “Instead of thinking I am losing something when I clear clutter, I dwell on what I might gain.”― Lisa J. Shultz
199. “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
200. “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
201. “In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.” ― Sharon Salzberg
202. “In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
203. “In the end, I’d loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.” — Cynthia Leitich Smith
204. “If you’ve fallen down, today is the day you can get back up and try again.” – Amelie Chance
205. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho
206. “If you want to move to a higher level of life, you have to be willing to let go of some of your old ways of thinking and being and adopt new ones.” ― T. Harv Eker
207. “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.
208. “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 the past that drags you down.” – Amit Ray
209. “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” – Shannon L. Alder
210. “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
211. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” – Shannon L. Alder
212. “If you really want to feel at peace, then your goal is to let go of the ego which separates us from being at one with all which is.” ― Kevin Kerr
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213. “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
214. “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
215. “If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.” – Leon Brown
216. “If someone breaks your heart, unburden yourself by seeking inner forgiveness. Then move ahead in life. Remember that each person who comes into your life serves a purpose.”― Anoir Ou-Chad
217. “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
218. “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
219. “If it doesn’t agree with your spirit let it go.” – Germany Kent
220. “I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I’m moving on.” – Rascal Flatts
221. “I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.” – Turcois Ominek
222. “I welcomed who I was and left behind who I was not.”― David Elliott
223. “I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.” ― Amy Adams
224. “I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.”—Ashley Rickards
225. “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.
226. “I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it’s not all for naught, and it’s meaningful, because it makes you who you are.” — Rashida Jones
227. “I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” ― Jeffrey McDaniel
228. “I let go of what stops me from moving forward and create space for better things to enter into my life.” ― Marge Castillon Di Blasio
229. “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
230. “I have realized taking a stand is tough, but what’s tougher is maintaining it and letting go of all those who doubt your intent.” — Rhea Chakraborty
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231. “I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.” ― Sheng-yen
232. “I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it’s all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.” — John Grant
233. “I don’t think it is ever too late to seek forgiveness and rewrite your future.” ― Carla Reighard
234. “I don’t know what lies ahead, but I want to keep going forever…” – Fuyumi Soryo
235. “I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.” – Katie Taylor
236. “I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.” – Fridtjof Nansen
237. “I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.” – Shannon A. Thompson
238. “I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.” – Waris Dirie
239. “Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” – Buddha
240. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
241. “Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.” — Sanaya Roman
242. “Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” – Ann Landers
243. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” ― Criss Jami
244. “Give up your attachment to having things your way.”— Iyanla Vanzant
245. “Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” – Tori Amos
246. “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
247. “Gather your strength, woman. And move on.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
248. “Forgiving means letting go of the past. It means that we let others act for themselves without judging them.” ― Christian Olsen
249. “Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.” — Oprah Winfrey
250. “Forgiveness is freedom.”― Jenny C. Bell
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251. “Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you.” — Shannon L. Alder
252. “Feeling uncomfortable in whatever you do does not have to stop you from doing anything, instead it should motivate you to do it anyway and let go of that feeling.” ― Susie Harper
253. “Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.” — David Bowie
254. “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
255. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
256. “Every day has a past. Every day has a tomorrow.” ― Amy Meyerson
257. “Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger” ― Sara Evans
258. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” — Victor Kiam
259. “Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.” — Ron Taffel
260. “Enjoy what you can and ignore the rest. Let’s not waste any energy fighting things that are outside our control.” — Paulo Coelho
261. “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”– Cherokee Indian Proverb
262. “Don’t hang on to the past and don’t look on to the future, focus on your present and present will build your future, cover your past and make your present worth a while”― Meeran W. Malik
263. “Don’t go through life; grow through life.”― Eric Butterworth
264. “Don’t go back to something God has already rescued you from.” – Mandy Hale
265. “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
266. “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
267. “Don’t be afraid to let go of this acquired, invented identity; this false feeling of ‘I.’ That is like being afraid to let go of a headache. That is what the imaginary ‘I’ is—one great big headache.” – Vernon Howard
268. “Do not let your hurt cause you to hate.” ― Timothy King
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269. “Dare to live by letting go.” – Tom Althouse
270. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli
271. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm
272. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
273. “Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”― Germany Kent
274. “Change has to come for life to struggle forward.”– Helen Hollick
275. “By letting go of the things that have been in your life with a feeling of gratitude, you foster appreciation for, and a desire to take better care of, the things in your life.” — Marie Kondo
276. “By letting go of my fears and concerns, I’ve gained so much happiness and freedom. With that freedom I’ve also gained confidence.” — Sabrina Claudio
277. “By accepting the process of letting go, we make people and things that we can’t stay with forever a part of our history.”― Dr. Prem Jagyasi
278. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
279. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” ― Criss Jami
280. “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” ― Shannon L. Alder
281. “At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”- Elizabeth Gilbert
282. “As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a strong body, you will be deeply served by letting go of those familiar limitations.” — Debbie Ford
283. “You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” ― Jodi Picoult
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284. “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” ― Dan Brown
285. “Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard
286. “Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.” – Anaïs Nin
287. “And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.” ― Khaled Hosseini
288. “And in the end, letting go was a lot like finding love. I had to learn to say goodbye to the one who gave me the courage to say hello.” ― R.M Drake
289. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”― Henry Havelock Ellis
290. “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
291. “Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti
292. “I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward” ― Fridtjof Nansen
293. “Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.” – Bryant H. McGill
294. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson
295. “Life moves on and so should we.” ― Spencer Johnson
296. “A mistake is only a mistake if you dwell on it. Let go and forgive.”― Akiroq Brost
297. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” ― Robert Brault
298. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau
299. “A huge problem we face when we’re in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.” — Tara Stiles
300. “A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.”– Anthony Liccione
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