Reading through these motivational letting go quotes will give you some perspective and help you become a better version of yourself.
Whether it’s meaningful letting go quotes, or simply short letting go quotes, taking a few minutes out to reflect is critical. I hope you’ll find something here that helps you to find a new perspective and improve your own life.
I thought I would compile a list of powerful quotes on letting go, which may guide you through life
Inspirational Letting Go Quotes
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. 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
If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. Paulo Coelho
Letting go doesn’t mean you give up. It means you keep going but you’re not attached to the outcome. Maxime Lagacé
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
We must learn to let things flow just like breath, and life will do the rest. Iyanla Vanzant
For a moment, let go of all trying to understand. Let go of all understanding. Here it is. Mooji
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
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
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
Three things you are in control of: your response to your feelings, what you hold onto, what you let go. Dhiman
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
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. Herman Hesse
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg
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
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
Letting go of someone you love is the rarest and truest form of love itself. To stay together needs attachment and understanding. But to stay apart no matter how hard it is and wish for their happiness needs love. Shree
Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not. Valery Satterwhite
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. Carl Jung
I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward. Fridtjof Nansen
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
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course. Zhuangzi
Short Letting Go Quotes
Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye. Beyonce Knowles
I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay. Sara Evans
If there is no contradiction whatsoever you have abundance of energy. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Slow down, get aligned, listen to the guidance and receive miracles. Gabby Bernstein
It is inner stillness that will save and transform the world. Eckhart Tolle
Trust simply means that whatever happens we are with it, joyously, not reluctantly, not unwillingly – then you miss the whole point – but dancingly, with a song, with laughter, with love. Whatever happens is for the good. Osho
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. Ralph Marston
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
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
We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
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.
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
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
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
I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go. Jeffrey McDaniel
If it can be improved, improve it. If it must be accepted, accept it. Embracing the inevitable frees you up to tackle what is within your control. The Stoic Emperor
Letting go is never easy. There is not short-cut or trick to it. You must be committed enough to your future to let go of your past. It’s not easy and it’s likely to hurt, but it is for the best. Steve Maraboli
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
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
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. Steve Maraboli
Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit. Shannon L. Alder
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
Positive Letting Go Quotes
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.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. J. K. Rowling
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
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
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
Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile. Mia Asher
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
The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did. FaraazKazi
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. Stephen Levine
The sooner we heal our traumas, the sooner we liberate ourselves from the people who hurt us. By hating them, we hold onto them. We cannot heal. Vironika Tugaleva
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. Carl Jung
Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again. Dawson’s Creek
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
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this. Terry Pratchett
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 Lander
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
Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger Sara Evans
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
Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. Zhuangzi
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.
If you can be patient, just a little patient and allow whatever is happening, soon you will be aware of a new quality in your being. Osho
Enlightenment is not a desire, is not a goal, is not an ambition. It is a dropping of all goals, a dropping of all desires, a dropping of all ambitions. It is just being natural. That’s what is meant by flowing. Osho
Deep Quotes About Letting Go
What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there’s nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it’s then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward. Mark Halperin
I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward Fridtjof Nansen
They say when you really love someone, you should be willing to set them free. So that is what I am doing. I will step back and you will move on. I will let you go. … Your happiness means everything to me. I will listen for your voice in the distance. I will look at the moon. I will keep you in my pocket. I will carry your smile with me everywhere, like a warm and comforting glow. Tabitha Suzuma
I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done. Turcois Ominek
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
Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe. C. JoyBell C.
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.
Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are. TurcoisOminek
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. Haruki Murakami
When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go. Kim Sowol
Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go. Jackson Kiddard
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. 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
You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be. Candace Bushnell
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. Elizabeth Gilbert
Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next Anon
Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well. Germant Kent
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
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
To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit. Jack Kornfield
Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream. Tom Althouse
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist