Letting Go Quotes

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

But whatever you've been today is already over.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

I see that nature offers us a solution to everything that we call a problem. If you can just find your own nature and live it as naturally as you possibly can and be in a state of awe over everything, it doesn't matter where you are. It almost speaks to you and says, "There's no reason to be upset about anything. It will pass." If it's really going to pass, why stay confused by it and depressed by it. Just watch it go. It's on its way out. That's what I began to do.

You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!

I'm jealous. I'm mad. I feel bad. But one day, I woke up and I thought, you know what? This is wearing me out. And I'm not getting anywhere. So, I decided that even though I did not have a good beginning, I made a decision that I was going to let go of what lies behind and I was going to have a great finish.

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.

The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.

It took a while to understand the beauty of just letting go

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

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

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

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

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.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders and tears, follies and defeats. Yesterday has passed away, beyond my control forever. The other day is tomorrow with all its pitfalls and threats, its dangers and mystery. Until the sun rises again I have no stake in tomorrow, for it is still unborn.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

Don't regret what's happened.If it's in the past, LET IT GO.Don't even remember it!

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

Everything you want is coming. Relax and let the universe pick the timing and the way.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

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?

Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

Let go of the past and go for the future.

Sometimes you just gotta let sh-t go and say 'to hell with it' and move on.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

The past is over... forget it. The future holds hope... reach for it.

giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.