Letting Go Quotes

I love you, and I want you to be happy, I want you to have the life you deserve. And if that means … if that means I have to stand here and watch you walk away, then I’ll do it. I won’t be happy about it. It’ll break my heart. But … if that’s what you really need, then we’re done.

~ Charles Sheehan-Miles

Seize the day, then let it go.

~ Marty Rubin

I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Falling in love is easy, letting that love go, is hard. But your heart will always have the right answer. You just have to listen to it and figure out what it’s telling you

~ Marie Coulson

I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

~ Michael Morpurgo

...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...

~ John Geddes

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

~ Elizabeth Berg

I've realized that, sometimes, you have to let people go. But I'm really glad I have someone to hold on to.

~ Alex Finn

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift. She opened her eyes to see the pearls. She picked one up, but dropped it. It rolled down the hill upon which she was sitting and into the river. The student chased after it and looked all afternoon, diving, coming up for air, diving back down. “Sophia,” he asked. “Could you show me where it went in? I can’t find it.” “Right there,” she said throwing the other pearl in the river.

~ David W. Jones

I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.

~ Mohsin Hamid

She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us

~ Chris Manby

If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the glorious Christ-built beauty of a set-apart young woman, this is where it all begins. Denying self, taking up your cross, and following the Lamb wherever He leads. In other words, letting go of all preoccupation with self: our comfort, our pleasure, our agenda, our popularity, our ability to gain the world's approval, even our own dreams and desires. And, as Paul did, treating all those things as rubbish for the excellence of the knowledge of Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings (Philippians 3:7-9).

~ Leslie Ludy

When he left, you spent all your energy holding on to him. You could be happy if you let go.

~ Stephenie Meyer

She's finding it hard to cope - her hopes have been dashed, the future she dreamed about has gone and she's scared about that. There's nothing in its place. She wants you back. She doesn't want to let go of everything it meant to her. Because the world seems horribly big and empty. Because the future is a very frightening concept when you'd previously planned on sharing it with someone. Because she's a girl, she's a romantic and she fears if she lets  go of her dream, she'll live a nightmare. Because she has a hope and she fears if she lets her hope go, who will she be?The effort, the pain of clinging on is preferable to the wide-open fear of letting go.

~ Freya North

I didn’t treat my girl like she was mineYeah, I thought I didn’t need her at the timeBut I changed my way of thinkin’ when she leftYeah, I finally learned my lesson, but I learned it by myself

~ Hunter Hayes

The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.

~ Edmund De Waal

It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.

~ Nick Hornby

Think differently, BE better!

~ Darren L. Johnson