Letting Go Quotes

Kiss me again. Let me imagine for a moment that you belong to me. The memory will keep me company in my solitude.

~ Kirsten Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

~ Deborah Cox

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

~ Haruki Murakami

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

~ Turcois Ominek

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break.So that was that. We were finally, finally over.I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the same way again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.'I couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’dalways been. He’d never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever.Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.I looked at him, and I thought, 'If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.'I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back. But I wasn’t that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew anyway.'I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.'I was the one to look away first.

~ Jenny Han

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

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

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

~ Kim Sowol

It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

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

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

~ Suzanne Collins

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

~ Faraaz Kazi

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

~ Mia Asher

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything,at any time,and I am not your fault.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

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

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.

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

~ Haruki Murakami

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.

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

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

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

~ Steve Maraboli

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

A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.

~ C. Joybell C.

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

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

~ Nicole Sobon

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

~ Roy T. Bennett

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

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

~ Steve Maraboli

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

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

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

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

~ Steve Maraboli