1. Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.
—Daphne Rose Kingma
2. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
—Hermann Hesse
3. Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.
—Ginni Rometty
4. I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.
—Jeffrey McDaniel
5. I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.
—Ashley Rickards
6. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
—Guy Finley
7. There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.
–Jessica Hatchigan
8. The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
—Faraaz Kazi
9. Pain will leave you, when you let go.
—Jeremy Aldana
10. I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.
—Rashida Jones
11. 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
12. 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
13. Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
—Oprah Winfrey
14. 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
15. Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
–Justin Timberlake
16. Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You’ll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.
—Osho
17.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
18. 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
20. 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
21. I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.
—Gayle Forman
22. 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
23. 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
24. There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over – and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.
—Ellen Goodman
25. I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.
—Fridtjof Nansen
26. 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
27. Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past
—Emily Giffi
28. I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.
—Turcois Ominek
29. When you leave,
weary of me,
without a word I shall gently let you go.
—Kim Sowol
30.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
31. “It’s time, Perry”. He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the tiny inperfections that made him beautiful. Without a word, she turned and made her way downhill.
—Veronica Rossi
32. 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
33. You can meet someone who’s just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just accept it and move on.
—Winna Efendi
34. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
—Rebecca Solnit
35. 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
36. When I say I’m going to forget you I know it’s impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I’m saying it’s what I wish for, not what is or could ever be.
—Donna Lynn Hope
37. If you want to fly on 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
38. You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.
—Mandy Hale
39. Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed a tear, turn around and look for the new door that’s opened. It’s a sign that you’re no longer that person you were, it’s time to change into who you are. It’s going to be okay.
—Lee Goff
40. The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
—Baltasar Gracián
41. No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.
—Alexandra Elle
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