Letting Go Quotes

No one likes to do anything against one's wish. And letting go of something that may not be your possession, but that belongs to you, is the most difficult thing. The fear that things won't remain the same if we let go, makes us compromise against our wish. But when we let go of something, we do not feel the much-dreaded and imagined pain. In fact, we can experience that long-lost breath of relief! The following letting go quotes and sayings will tell you the same thing, but in a poetic manner!

Letting Go of Past Quotes

Breathe. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~ Oprah Winfrey

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

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. ~ Lao Tzu

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you. ~ Anonymous

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~ Raymond Lindquist

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. ~ Gail Sheehy

May God put a spell on you. So you won't forget me. ~ Anonymous

Whenever I cried he would always make me feel like he would change the world if he could so it couldn't hurt me anymore. But now I'm crying and he's not here. ~ Anonymous

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

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. ~ Ann Landers

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 Jampolsky

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

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. ~ Kate Winslet

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go. ~ Sylvia Robinson

There's no need to miss someone from your past. There's a reason they didn't make it to your future. ~ Anonymous

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. ~ Gloria Naylor

Stand up and walk out of your history. ~ Phil McGraw

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood. ~ Karen Casey

Letting Go of Love Quotes

When I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the most. ~ Anonymous

I don't miss him, I miss who I thought he was. ~ Anonymous

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell

We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy moment, or say goodbye just one last time, we never can, because the sands of time continue to fall, and we can't turn the hourglass over. ~ Anonymous

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~ Lao Tzu

You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. ~ James Matthew Barrie

You never leave someone behind, you take a part of them with you and leave a part of yourself behind. ~ Anonymous

Sometimes you love something so much that it hurts to leave it, but you must. Sometimes it hurts too much to hold on to that thing you love. And sometimes you let go of what you love because it hurts, but then just sometimes you get it back and live happily ever after. ~ Anonymous

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. ~ John Seely Brown

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

Why do people have to lose things to find out what they really mean? ~ Anonymous

When you are in love and you get hurt, it's like a cut. It will heal, but there will always be a scar. ~ Anonymous

You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel. ~ Anonymous

Letting Go Quotes On Relationships

The pain experienced during a breakup is as individual as the trillions of people who go through it. ~ Tigress Luv

Trust me, no past love is as wonderful as a broken heart may make them out to be. ~ Anonymous

The funny thing about breakups is they point out what we didn't even know we had, but don't give us the option of going back into battle armed with that knowledge. ~ Anonymous

I was reborn when you first kissed me. Part of me died when you left me. But now I still live, waiting for the day you return to me. ~ Anonymous

You are always there for me and so you give me the courage to stand alone. ~ Anonymous

Why did you leave me? When did you leave me? Where was I, when this happened? ~ Anonymous

You can take away my heart and you can take away my reason to wake up in the morning, but you can't take away my ability to take them right back from you. ~ Anonymous

He gave me nothing, and he took it with him when he left. ~ Anonymous

It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone if your heart still does. ~ Anonymous

Even when I pour my heart out to you, I'm not sure it shows that I love you more than you'll ever know. ~ Anonymous

Do not take another's bad opinion of you as the truth. Nothing others think or say about you is about you, but rather a reflection of their own reality. ~ Anonymous

Obsession is feeling fearful that you may be losing him; detachment is knowing that he may be losing you; and apathy is the past tense of both. ~ Anonymous

Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing. ~ Anonymous

I can embrace myself, hold my own hand, love me. But I can't gaze into my own eyes and feel my own soul lift me up. ~ Anonymous

One love isn't all-consuming, but one heartbreak can be. ~ Anonymous

Every happy couple has at least one breakup behind them. ~ Anonymous

Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them. ~ Anonymous

I know in reality we can't be together, so I just close my eyes and you're right here with me in my dreams, you're mine forever. ~ Anonymous

The dark of night does not come after the golden glow of the day's sun but before it. ~ Anonymous

No one is spared the pain of rejection, except the ignorant and the fool. Which my ex just happens to be both of. ~ Anonymous

After reading the above quotes, you must have realized that at times, the best thing to do, is to let go. So do not feel blue, because something better is waiting for you :)