Quotes about Letting Go

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Please enjoy these Letting Go quotes about releasing your attachments and just moving on. To live your happiest life, learn to let go of your troubles, learn to let go of love that didn't work out, move on with life.

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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

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

Some of us think holding on makes us strong;
but sometimes it is letting go.
- Hermann Hesse

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

Live and let live.
- Anonymous

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

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

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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

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

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

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

There is a freedom in letting go of someone.
- Anonymous

Letting go doesn't mean giving up... it means moving on.
- Anonymous

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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

Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
- Thomas Edison

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
- William James

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy increases and suffering decreases as one masters the distinction
between events and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is unknowable. Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A Joyful Life comes from zigging as Life zigs and zagging as it zags.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Train yourself to live in the present -
without regretting the past or fearing the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I choose not to project my past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I create a new and more loving story to surround each event in my past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I allow life to wash over me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I do my best and accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I recognize that the person I was in my past is not the person I am today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Like a Chameleon, I Adapt to Changing Circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I accept everything that ever has been,
with no regrets, no resentments, and no call for vengeance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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