43 Perfect Letting Go Quotes For Moving On

You have to let go.

You can’t continue holding onto things in the past – whatever they may be – because you think that things won’t be better in the future. The truth is, Letting go is one of the hardest things in the world. But oh my is it worth it.

Because when you finally let go, you have the chance to live in the present moment – the only moment you truly have. So dive into these letting go quotes and move forward. Move on. Move into the future.

1. Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. | Melissa Marr
2. But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives. | Haruki Murakami
3. I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go. | Lauren Oliver
4. Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them. | Sue Grafton
5. In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? | Gautama Buddha
6. Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. | Maxim Gorky
7. You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be. | Candace Bushnell
8. I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you. | Erin Morgenstern
9. 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
10. Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free. | Thich Nhat Hanh
11. At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. | Elizabeth Gilbert
12. Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. | David Foster Wallace
13. I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. | Marilyn Monroe
14. 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.
15. 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
16. Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it’s the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. | Gayle Forman
17. “Was it hard?” I ask. Letting go?” Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn’t real. | Lisa Schroeder
18. Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.  | Oprah Winfrey
19. Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. | Eckhart Tolle
20. In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go. | Ally Condie
21. It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t coma back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain. Damn, there’s nothing like that, is there? I’ve been there and you have too. You’re nodding your head. | Henry Rollins
22. 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
23. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. | Lao Tzu
24. We are the choices we make. | Patrick Ness
25. 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
26. Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over. | Nicole Sobon
27. We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. | Rainer Maria Rilke
28. So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go! | Jonathan Safran Foer
29. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were. | Kahlil Gibran
30. Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go. | Hermann Hesse
31. Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking. | Patrick Ness
32. 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
33. 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.
34. Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past. | Dan Brown
35. One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. | Friedrich Nietzsche
36. 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
37. You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. | Joel Osteen
38. This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. | Marilyn Monroe
39. Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. | Ray Bradbury
40. It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. | Yann Martel
41. 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
42. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. | Chuck Palahniuk
43. Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. | Brian L. Weiss
44. Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss. | Meghan O’Rourke

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