Letting Go Quotes

We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.

~ Steve Maraboli

Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.

~ Anthony Liccione

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

To enter your true self,check your ego at the door.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self.

~ Robert Tew

We're all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn't value it.

~ Turcois Ominek

It's a tiring game resenting the scars and the fearful memories.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the “excuses” and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.

~ Yvonne Pierre

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 11)

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Moving on is not about forgetting the past, it’s about learning from it. Find the message in the mess…Cry. Forgive. Learn. That’s moving on.

~ Steve Maraboli

By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. Pg.116-117

~ Marie Kondō

It is not memories but the person we have become because of those past experiences that we should treasure. This is the lesson these keepsakes teach us when we sort them. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not the person we were in the past. P.118

~ Marie Kondō

It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past.

~ Tony Curl

Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

~ Margaret Atwood

The bottom line is this; when one person stops being a part of your life, another one will come, and fill that empty space. Leave the ones who left in the past, right where they belong, and never look back.

~ Ena Snow

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

Sometimes there are things in our lives that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes the changes we don’t want are the changes we need to grow. - W.J. Dlor

~ Wilfred James Dolor

How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the 'could’ve' and 'should’ve,' to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.

~ Steve Maraboli

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

~ Marianne Williamson

He had felt viable being near her or knowing she was listening to him or having the comfort of their casual meeting within a dream. With her, he simply and effortlessly felt better. They all felt better, unburdened, cared for, and heard. Being connected to her eased his suffering as he gave her his. It was only when she began to drown in the cumulation of commingled torments that to save whatever part of her was left, she disconnected, and when she did, his suffering returned and remained with him longer than she had. But instead of saving herself, it was the additional burden of her own anguish from letting them all go that took her breath and inevitably pulled her under.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The rose has toldIn one simplicityThat never lifeRelinquishes a bloomBut to bestowAn ancient confidence.

~ Nathalia Crane

Have you ever wondered why we bury and cremate our dead? Nothing to do with hygiene, it’s just so we don’t have to see the reality of death. You know, the Zoroastrians used to leave their dead in open places for the birds to eat. Now that’s a far more honest way to go, don’t you agree? Everyone can see what happens. It makes us live our lives more potently. That’s how I want to go, at my end: openly. Not ashamed of death, but embracing it.

~ Cliff James

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

~ Tim Fargo

All the external adoration, respect and adulation in the world, can't drown out the internal voices that tell us, we are not good enough and unworthy of; happiness, love and an abundant life. When we need others to tell us we're amazing, worthy and lovable, in order to feel good about ourselves, it is never enough. It goes into the bottomless pit where our inherent self-worth should be. It may feel like we are reaching out to receive love, but in actuality, we are seeking external noise to help drown out our negative core beliefs.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Today may be your last chance to be you, someone you forgot to completely immerse yourself in because you were too worried about the details. The details that, no matter how many times you thought them through, brought you no closer to understanding. They just tied up your mind and prevented you from really letting in the things you love. Your demon that is standing before the beautiful floodgate and is keeping you in a dehydrated nothingness.Give him permission to walk away. He is not your keeper. You are his.

~ Brianna Wiest

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Of course she no longer excites him. She no longer works overtime to maintain a dumpster fire.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Only absolute simplicity can resolve a horrible complication; only a state free from psychology can heal psychological connections, and only a lucid brain can let go of a compulsive thought.

~ Shai Tubali

When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or abuse...We have often thought, 'If only I could have stopped it,' but we could not have stopped it. We let go of the 'if only' now and sit still with our stark powerlessness…In our surrender to powerlessness, we touch ourselves with the gift of truth.

~ Maureen Brady

Shed the tears.Shed the blame and guilt too.So that your heart mends and heals.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

You really don't have to burn any bridges to let go... You don't have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.

~ Marta Mrotek

Letting go looks different for everyone, I think. Sometimes it's as simple as waking up one day and deciding not to let your past rule you. Other times it's a process; slow moving and painful, like trudging through a forest of thorny vines in hopes that you'll find freedom on the other side.

~ Allison J. Kennedy

Sure all life's highways at some point must end, so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive when the pavement runs out...And hopefully leave behind artistically that which may make other roads an even better ride...

~ Tom Althouse

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Mark nodded even though she couldn't see. He'd suddenly lost any desire to talk, and his plans for a perfect day washed away with the stream. The memories. They never let him go, not even for a half hour. They always had to rush back in, bringing all the horror.

~ James Dashner

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

~ Shannon L. Alder