You may have been hanging onto something or someone for a really long time. You may have done all you could to the point where you put yourself in situations you would never put in if it were not for the care and love you had for that person or thing. Probably, you still have that little hope that things will magically start turning around. But you need to ask yourself if the pain you are feeling every moment is worth the wait. What guarantees that things will go your way when they did not go your way so far? How about letting go of the past you hold so dearly to your chest and making space for something better to enter your life? How about believing that God has a better plan for you? Muster up the courage, take a deep breath and look at the world with fresh eyes, a wiser mind, a stronger soul & an open heart. Here are 100+ letting go quotes to help you move on:
- Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains. ~Ramana Maharshi
- Better things are coming.
- God’s plans will always be greater and more beautiful than all your disappointments.
- When God gives you a “No,” give him a “thank you.” He was protecting you from less than his best.
- When someone loves you, they don’t have to say it. You can tell by the way they treat you.
- Be patient. Sometimes you have to go through the worst to get the best.
- This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you. ~Hafiz
- Trust the next chapter because you are the author.
- If you can love the wrong person that much, imagine how much you can love the right one.
- The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
- Always know the difference between what you’re getting and what you deserve.
- Soon someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.
- One of the most courageous decisions you will ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul. ~Birgitte Nicole
- Never let an old flame burn you twice.
- Don’t worry if you are single; God is looking at you right now, saying, “I am saving this person for someone special.”
- Remember, when you forgive, you heal. And when you let go, you grow.
- It doesn’t matter if it’s a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn’t make you happy, let it go.
- Take all the time you need. You will heal, and you will move on.
- When you are transitioning to a new season of life, the people and situations that no longer fit you will fall away. ~ Mandy Hale
- Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you. ~ Mandy Hale
- Someone who hates you normally hates you for one of three reasons. They either see you as a threat. They hate themselves. Or they want to be you.
- As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. ~ Steve Maraboli
- Don’t despise what you’ve been through. You needed the lessons.
- You will never truly be happy if you continue to hold onto things that make you sad.
- I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it’s not all for naught, and it’s meaningful, because it makes you who you are. ~Rashida Jones
- God is up to something. There is a reason why you went through what you went through. Trust the process. He’s got you.
- Forgiveness hurts but its reward is priceless. ~Naide P Obiang
- Some changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. ~ Eckhart Tolle
- If someone breaks your heart, unburden yourself by seeking inner forgiveness. Then move ahead in life. Remember that each person who comes into your life serves a purpose. ~Anoir Ou-Chad
- If life can remove someone you never dreamed of losing, it can replace them with someone you never dreamt of having. ~Rachel Wolchin
- Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive. ~ Bryant H. McGill
- So we’re in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and… basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go. ~Adrianne Lenker
- Make sure you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who don’t value you. Know your worth even if they don’t. ~ Thema Davis
- Let us forget, with generosity, those who cannot love us. ~Pablo Neruda
- Forgive them even if they’re not sorry.
- 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
- Time does not heal emotional pain; you need to learn how to let go. ~Roy T Bennett
- Not to spoil the ending for you, but.. everything is going to be okay.
- Life moves on and so should we. ~ Spencer Johnson, American physician, and author
- Don’t let something that’s long gone continue to control you. It’s time to let go.
- Forgive people who you believe have done you wrong. Let go. God will handle them. ~Germany Kent
- What was meant for you, will never miss you. And that what misses you was never meant for you.
- Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or ‘mind traffic’ that gets in the way of just whatever is between you and space and consciousness. ~Trudie Styler
- Look at the stars -it won’t fix your problems. But it will help you remember that you and your problems are both infinitesimally small and conversely, that you are a piece of an amazing and vast universe.
- One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.
- Rejection is not fatal; it is merely someone’s opinion.
- What feels like the end is often the beginning. ~Anonymous
- Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. ~ Anais Nin
- You are not giving up when you let go, you are moving on, there is a big difference. ~Catherine Pulsifer
- Letting go brings a feeling of lightness and freedom, like taking a heavy rock off your shoulders. -~Remez Sasson
- Letting go means freedom from unpleasant memories. ~Remez Sasson
- Be strong enough to let go and wise enough to wait for what you deserve.
- Love yourself first, so you know what you deserve.
- Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.
- If you’re brave to say “Goodbye,” life will reward you with a new “Hello.” ~ Paulo Coehlo
- Let yourself move to the next chapter in life when the time comes. Don’t remain stuck on the same page.
- When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go. ~Kim Sowol
- It is through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ~Theodore Roosevelt
- Life is a balance of holding on and letting go ~Rumi
- You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.
- 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
- Close some doors today, not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere. ~ Paulo Coehlo
- Sometimes letting go is braver than holding on until you break. ~Rebekah Crane
- You only struggle because you are ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go. ~Drew Gerald
- Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are. ~Turcoise Ominek
- You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk. ~Louise Smith
- Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you. ~ Frank Ocean
- Stop ignoring actions and trusting words. Stop giving your all to a person who gives you nothing. Stop hanging on to someone who has let go of you. Stop expecting change from a person who doesn’t want to be changed. Stop letting the fear of loneliness cause you to settle for less than what you deserve. Stop letting the wrong reasons keep you in a relationship that isn’t right for you. Stop breaking your own heart. ~Trent Shelton
- It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on.
- Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. ~ Steve Maraboli
- It’s sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of you life starts with goodbye. ~Carrie Underwood
- Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you. ~Shannon L. Alder
- 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
- When you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you’re free. To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up. ~Richard Carlson
- In letting go, you learn that some people only come into your life to teach you how to move on, to teach you exactly who you shouldn’t hold on to. You learn that the things that you’re afraid of doing are exactly the things you need to do so you can grow and set yourself free. ~MindsJournal.com
- Dare to love by letting go. ~Tom Althouse
- Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward. ~ Erika Taylor
- If it doesn’t agree with your spirit let it go. ~Germany Kent
- 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
- Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.
- One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up. ~Mandy Hale
- Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay; they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.~Arti Honrao
- If your heart hurts a little after letting go of someone or something, that’s okay. It just means that your feelings were genuine. No one likes ends. And no one likes pain. But sometimes we have to put things that were once good to an end after they turn toxic to our wellbeing. Not every new beginning is meant to last forever. And not every person who walks into your life is meant to stay.
- Know your worth. You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served.
- Don’t give part-time people a full-time position in your life. Know your value and what you have to offer, and never settle for anything less than what you deserve.
- In life, some chapters have to be turned and some to be burned.
- 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
- Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.
- The art of letting go is art in its purest form. ~Meredith Pence
- It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch a baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place. ~Angelina Jolie
- If someone ignores you. Always remember the door can be locked from the other side too.
- Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go. ~Jackson Kiddard
- Once you feel you’re avoided by someone. Never disturb them again.
- The best is yet to come.
- It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. ~ J. C. Watts
- The pain will leave you when you let go. ~Jeremy Aldana
- Be with someone who will sit with you and say, “Let’s fix this,” instead of being a child and ignoring you.
- There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t even jump poodles for you.
- I’m moving on. No more waiting, no more hurt. If you wanted me, you could’ve had me, but you didn’t. You blew your chance.
- 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
- Holding on is believing there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. ~Daphne Rose Kingma
- 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
- We must let go of the life we planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell
- 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
- 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
- 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
- I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go. ~ Jeffrey McDaniel
- It is by giving the freedom to the other, that is by letting go, we gain our own freedom back. ~Aleksandra Ninkovic
- Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. ~ Hermann Hesse
- To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay. ~ Lao Tzu
- The world belongs to those who let go. ~Lao Tzu
- “Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ~Mandy Hale
- “Your reminder that waiting on someone to come around is the same as energetically chasing them. Trust the process to let go; what’s meant for you will come.” ~Haley Hoffman Smith
We hope the above 100+ letting go quotes will help you move on and give you peace and courage to chin up and look for a new set of colors and positive feelings to fill your heart with.
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