201 Letting Go Quotes To Let Go of The Past Now

 

Amazing Letting Go Quotes That Will Help You To Let Go of Your Past

 

“Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.”

– Melody Beattie

Best Quotes on How To Let Go of Your Bitter Past: Letting go is never easy and sometimes letting go of the past can be one of the hardest things to do in life. But once you make the decision, you will see how you create a channel for so many new and wonderful things to enter your life that would never have happened if you didn’t make a change and moved on! Many people think that holding on to the past is natural to us. But, it’s not true.

When you desperately try to hold on to that which once was will only create even more problems in your life. Actually holding on to the past puts an excess burden on your limited potential and hampers your future growth. It’s often hard to let things go that have special importance to you, but in order to move forward we must learn to let go.

Letting go means accepting things as they had been. Letting go liberates you, makes you feel less burdened, and automatically gives you that inner peace that you have been searching for. So, today we are going to share some of the most encouraging quotes on letting go that will help you to finally let go of what happened in the past and move towards a brighter future.

 

After every disappointment and failure, we need to dedicate some time for healing our wounds, but the worst we can do is lingering under the grip of regrets. Take time to shed tears but know when it’s time to move forward. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

– Leo Buscaglia

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post-mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

– Carl Sandburg

There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go. You must learn to let go.

– Nancy Stephan

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

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

– Anonymous, Misattributed to Buddha

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

Do not promise when you are happy. Do not reply when you are angry. And do not decide when you are sad.

– Ziad K. Abdelnour

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass – It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.

– Vivian Greene

A broken heart does not mean you are broken. The crack is there to let the light in.

– Rupert Brooke

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

– Nicholas Sparks

I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.

– Fridtjof Nansen

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain come in our relationship with others.

– Stephen R. Covey

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

– Nicole Sobon

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

– Guy Finley

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Make it a good one.

– Charles Dederich

You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.

– Candace Bushnell

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

– Anais Nin

When you let go, you are truly free.

– Anonymous

 

Letting Go Quotes For Real Lovers With Beautiful Pictures

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing the beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive – I’ll find love again.

– Paulo Coelho

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering.

– Hal Tipper

Bending over backward does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.

– Sherry Argov

Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives.

– Osayi Osar-Emokpae

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more they want to get away.

– Henry Rollins

One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you… then you’re gonna hate yourself for letting me go.

– Aubrey Drake Graham

Your ex asking you to be friends after break up is like kidnappers asking you to keep in touch after letting you go.

– Anonymous

If another girl steals your man, there’s no better revenge than letting her keep him. Real men can’t be stolen.

– Kid Cudi

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.

– Robert James Waller

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.

– Zig Ziglar

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

– Mark Twain

Some things are just never meant to be, no matter how much we wish they were.

– Anonymous

It’s sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye.

– Carrie Underwood

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

– Faraaz Kazi

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at your pain or we never move on.

– Jeff Ross

Even the most beautiful of the stars are taken for granted night after night.

– Veronika Jensen

If you start to miss me, remember: I didn’t walk away, you let me go.

– Anonymous

Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.

– Laura Fitzgerald

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.

– Alysha Speer

If you love something, let it go…

– Karen Halvorsen Schreck

 

Best Let It Go Quotes To Reclaim Your Lost Happiness Easily

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?

– Mary Manin Morrissey

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

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 feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

– Frank Ocean

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

– Walt Disney

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die, and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

– Bryant McGill

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

– Oprah Winfrey

In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

– Deepak Chopra

Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.

– Daphne Rose Kingma

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

– Ralph Marston

Surrender to what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.

– Sonia Ricotti

So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

– Nicholas Sparks

When you let go, you create space for better things to enter your life.

– Anonymous

There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.

– Jessica Hatchigan

We are all failures – at least the best of us are.

– James M. Barrie

Even on my weakest days, I get a little bit stronger.

– Sara Evans

What does not kill you makes you stronger.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Every exit is an entry somewhere.

– Tom Stoppard

 

Letting Go of Someone You Love Quotes With Great Images

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 are 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

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

You need to realize that life is too short to cry over people that are not crying over you. So smile and know you have people that love you.

– Anonymous

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Wanting her is hard to forget, loving her is hard to regret, losing her is hard to accept, but letting go is the most painful.

– Anonymous

No matter how badly you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.

– Alexandra Elle

It is better to accept that you have been hurt, get the lesson from the experience, and move on. Leave your regrets.

– Anonymous

A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It’s just his way of letting you realize he saved you from the wrong one.

– Anonymous

Letting go of outcomes might be the hardest thing we’ll ever do, but it beats the boredom of inaction.

– Bryan Radzin

With time the pain eases, the body recovers, and the brain figures out new ways to go on.

– Federico Chini

Nothing helps a broken heart like having someone wonderful give you theirs.

– Rita Stradling

The hardest thing in life is letting go of the person whom you dearly love.

– Luffina Lourduraj

The smartest thing a woman can ever learn, is to never need a man.

– Demi Lovato

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

– Albert Camus

Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on.

– Corey Johnson

A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.

– Marilyn Monroe

The heart will break, but broken live on.

– Lord Byron

Don’t wait. If it’s not right, move on.

– Andy Lau

 

Inspiring Quotes About Letting Go To Help You Move On

No matter how much we suffer or how much we were hurt, we always have troubles letting go of harmful or unhealthy things, relationships, places, and people. That is the burden of our feelings and the deeper we feel, the harder it is to let go. Sometimes the solution is to simply move forward, without looking back.

– Robin Sharma

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

– Saint Basil

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 of the past that drags you down.

– Amit Ray

Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it’s gone for good.

– Eleanor Brownn

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

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.

– Lao Tzu

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

– Helen Keller

Look back into your past but only for the lessons and education that better your future.

– Pawan Pratap Singh

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them, but still move on without them.

– Mandy Hale

When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen.

– Zig Ziglar

#All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

– Havelock Ellis

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

– Bernard Williams

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

– Dr. Seuss

Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.

– Jackson Kiddard

It’s never too late to be who you might have been.

– George Eliot

#Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

– Gerald G. Jampolsky

 

Famous Letting Go of The Past Quotes For Men & Women

Some people confuse giving up and letting go. Usually, cowards who don’t want to look for solutions anymore are those who give up, while people who let go are those who tested all solutions before accepting to move on. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

– Henry Ford

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

Letting go isn’t about forgetting; it’s about learning and moving on. It’s making a choice to be strengthened by your past…not strangled by it.

– Steve Maraboli

#People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.

– Bill Cosby

Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on, and letting go.

– Nicole Lyons

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

– Oprah Winfrey

One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.

– Anonymous

Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.

– Carrie Underwood

You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go.

– Drew Gerald

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

– John Lennon

Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.

– Anais Nin

Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.

– Greg Behrendt

A man who does not leave his hut will bring nothing in.

– West African Proverb

Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

– Steve Maraboli

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

– Victor Hugo

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.

– Gautama Buddha

Your past does not equal your future.

– Anthony Robbins

 

Picture Quotes About Letting People Go Out of Your Life

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

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

– Angelina Jolie

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 of the past that drags you down.

– Amit Ray

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

– C. S. Lewis

Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

– Len Santos

If you lost it, it’s because you’re meant to find something better. Trust, let go and make room for what’s coming.

– Mandy Hale

I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.

– Jeffrey McDaniel

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

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.

– C. JoyBell C.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.

– Leo Buscaglia

When life seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.

– Kid Cudi

Whatever our regret, we can learn to use its lessons and its gifts.

– Hamilton Beazley

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

– Anne Frank

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

– Dalai Lama

Don’t be afraid to move on and start a new chapter.

– Anonymous

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

– Anaïs Nin

Let go or be dragged.

– Zen Proverb

 

Top Letting Go Quotes To Discover Better Things In Life

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go of the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

– Lucius A. Seneca

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

It’s true we do not know what we have got until it’s gone, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.

– Bette Davis

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

– Oprah Winfrey

What is coming is better than what is gone. Don’t give up hope. Good things often happen when you least expect them.

– Anonymous

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

– Khalil Gibran

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. It cannot be gained by interfering.

– Lao Tzu

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.

– Anonymous

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

– Ashley Rickards

Some of us think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.

– Herman Hesse

It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

– J. C. Watts

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

– Steve Maraboli

Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.

– Dan Brown

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

– Edmund Burke

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

– Shane Koyczan

It hurts like hell. And then one day, it doesn’t.

– Anonymous

If I look back I am lost.

– George R.R. Martin

 

Thought-Provoking Quotes On How To Let Go of Something

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.

My Dear Self… Don’t get worked up over things you can’t change, or people you can’t change. It’s not worth the anger build-up or the headache. Control only what you can. Everything else. Let Go.

– Anonymous

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

Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.

– Patti Roberts

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

Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.

– Dawson’s Creek TV Show

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

– Khalil Gibran

You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

– Guy Finley

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

– Steve Maraboli

People keep telling me that life goes on, but to me, that’s the saddest part.

– Anonymous

Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.

– Steve Maraboli

A mistake is only a mistake if you dwell on it. Let go and forgive.

– Akiroq Brost

Habits are hard to let go of, especially if they are human beings.

– Drishti Bablani

#It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on.

– Anonymous

You could make a Wish or you could make it Happen.

– Anonymous

You can only move on if you accept that it’s gone.

– The Goddess Rebellion

Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.

– Nikita Gill

You can only lose what you cling to.

– Gautama Buddha

 

Quotes About Letting People Go Who Doesn’t Care For You

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

– Octavia Butler

A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.

– Alvy Singer

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

– Terry Pratchett

It’s not a matter of letting go – you would if you could. Instead of “Let it go” we should probably say “Let it be”.

– Jon Kabat-Zinn

You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn’t mean letting go.

– Mary VanHaute

Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

– Ann Landers

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

– Fulton J. Sheen

Has someone made you heartbroken? Then, why are you still thinking of him?

– Debra K. Messer

If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

– Billy Idol

A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.

– Anthony Liccione

You can’t hold on to the past and expect to grow as a human being.

– Marty Rubin

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

– Marcel Proust

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.

– Shannon L. Alder

The most liberating moment is the moment you finally let go.

– Ava Harrison

Practice letting go of thoughts about what is not here now.

– Anonymous

If life was easy where would all the adventures be?

– Anonymous

Holding on won’t make you strong, letting go will.

– Thibaut

 

Goodbye Letting Go of Someone You Love Quotes With Images

There is a great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape – own it – break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.

– Steve Maraboli

I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone …. I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go.

– Ranata Suzuki

Moving on isn’t about not loving someone anymore and forgetting them. It’s about having the strength to say I still love you, but you’re not worth this pain.

– Ritu Ghatourey

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

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

Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can’t do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now.

– Joel Osteen

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.

– Demi Lovato

One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.

– B. Nicole

Time flies, people change. You’re not always needed. There are times to move forward and places to let go.

– Anonymous

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.

– Jennifer Weiner

So for now I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next.

– Brooke Davis

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

– Jean Giraudoux

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

– Steve Maraboli

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.

– Margaret George

Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.

– Mandy Hale

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

– Faraaz Kazi

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

– Paulo Coelho

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

– Barbara De Angelis

Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.

– Ginni Rometty

Follow your own path and let people talk.

– Dante Alighieri

Pain will leave you when you let go.

– Jeremy Aldana

It often takes a lot more strength to move on with your life than holding on to a past that no longer is. But we hope that these letting-go quotes will surely help you to move forward in your life. If these letting-go quotes helped you, please feel free to share your experiences below. We would love to hear all about.

“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.”

– Anonymous