All About: Letting Go Quotes
This page is all about letting go quotes. You use them to inspire you to continue clearing your blocked emotional energy . Letting go as talked about on this website is purely an internal feeling process. However, there are some quotes here that talk about how to let go of something external to you. Doing this becomes a lot easier when we look within and release our inner most emotions. If the inner state is not dealt with then no matter of letting go of the external will really help the individual. He or she will continue to have a repeating patterns but they will not be able to really know why.
Let go to live
When we talk about letting go we can use such inspiration quotes to help us hit the ground running. Letting go is something that just happens but to start we must want to let go. Often we continue holding on but we don’t know how painful it is to do so. There are many people that talk about letting go and they are quoted as understanding it but this isn’t always the case. You must live letting go through your day to day experience and in every moment. Only then will you have an understanding of what it really is about. With consistent practice and a strong will perhaps one day you will be talking all about letting go. Quotes will then be attributed to your name. Of course you won’t care about this because you would have let go.
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| Quote | Author | Notes from Daniel |
|---|---|---|
| Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you. | Shannon L. Alder | You can forget what hurt you as long as you know how to let go of the emotions behind the event. |
| The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow. | Lester Levenson | I first came across Letting Go through this amazing man. Read his story and be inspired by what is possible. |
| In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. | Deepak Chopra | When you let go you will find more of your true authentic self and not your ego. |
| Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. | Herman Hesse | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | Powerful quote and one that I love. It takes a consistent effort with a high amount of will. |
| The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future. | Alyson Noel | As long as the emotions about the past have been let go of then it can be forgotten. Otherwise, life will tell you differently. |
| 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 | |
| People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves. | Lester Levenson | |
| 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. | Tao Te Ching | |
| Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite. | Lester Levenson | |
| Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. | Victor Kiam | Totally! |
| Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. | Ralph Marston | If you let go of being right then you have an opportunity to process and let go of more emotions. |
| Forgiveness means letting go of the past. | Gerald Jampolsky | |
| Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. | Raymond Lindquist | |
| 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 | Powerful quote. |
| We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. | Joseph Campbell | |
| You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. | Guy Finley | Love this Guy. He wrote an amazing book called The Secret of Letting Go. |
| Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to. | Mandy Hale | We often do the opposite and try to force others so we can feel better about ourselves. |
| Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. | Oprah Winfrey | Consciously connected breathing helps with letting go. |
| You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles. | C. JoyBell C. | The majority of us carry several rucksacks all at the same time. |
| Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day! | Steve Maraboli | |
| Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger. | Sara Evans | It's not always easy to see this though |
| Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. | Tony Schwartz | Amazing quote |
| The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. | Steve Maraboli | |
| Pain will leave you when you let go. | Jeremy Aldana | Not just emotional pain but mental and physical too. |
| 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 | |
| There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination. | Lester Levenson | |
| 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 | All accomplished when looking deeply within and being unconditional with it. |
| There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go. | Jessica Hatchigan | |
| “When one really loves, one can never be hurt.” | Lester Levenson | What appears as love to most people is really attachment and within that there is pain. True love does not have this limitation. |
| Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over. | Nicole Sobon | |
| We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better. | C. JoyBell C. | |
| Change has to come for life to struggle forward. | Helen Hollick | |
| 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 | |
| Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it. | Ann Lander | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | |
| Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t. | Steve Maraboli | Such powerful words and something people always struggle with. |
| The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love. | Lester Levenson | |
| The seemingly scary condition is NOT the problem. It is your reaction that is fearful. This is why if your become conscious of your condition instead of afraid of it, you’ll change your relationship with fear. | Guy Finley | Within this statement he gives you the secret of letting go. Conscious awareness |
| Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward. | Erika Taylor | |
| It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on. | Steve Maraboli | |
| “Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.” | Lester Levenson | |
| 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 | |
| Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. | Dalai Lama | |
| If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate. | C. JoyBell C. | |
| You can only lose what you cling to. | Buddha | and at some level we cling to EVERYTHING. |
| When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear…. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all. | Gerald G. Jampolsky | |
| Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self. | Lester Levenson | |
| I demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but to move forward. | Fridtjof Nansen | |
| Allow yourself to notice how much you are trying to find completeness, and do your best to let go of wanting to look away from your natural inner completeness | Hale Dwoskin | |
| A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath. | Anthony Liccione | Although it is definitely harder to build such a bridge. |
| When we respond, we make a conscious choice. When we re-act, we are unconsciously driven by our past. Respons-ability is the ability to respond rather than re-act. | Michael Ryce | |
| Everything changes but it can only change you for the better | Matt Kahn | Matt is an interesting spiritual teacher who has a uniquely powerful presence. |
| Letting go of who you think you are, is letting go of your problems. They are one and the same. | Guy Finley | Who you think you are isn't really you. Let this go and discover the truth. |
| Life moves on and so should we. | Spencer Johnson | |
| “I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.” | Lester Levenson | |
| 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 the past that drags you down. | Amit Ray | |
| 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 | |
| You can have anything you want providing you first let go of wanting it. | Lester Levenson | |
| Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past. | Dan Brown | |
| “Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.” | Lester Levenson | |
| Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. | Daphne Rose Kingma | |
| All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. | Havelock Ellis | |
| Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. | Mandy Hale | |
| The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go. | C. JoyBell C. | |
| There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home. | Lester Levenson | |
| Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it. | Ginni Rometty | |
| As you allow a habit to be as it is, you can make a new choice from the position of power. | Hale Dwoskin | |
| Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. | Bryant McGill | |
| Make an inner decision to let go resisting higher levels of functioning. This means to make a decision to stop denying the higher levels to yourself, and to make a decision to let go of all blocks to happiness, success, health, acceptance, love, and peace. | Dr David Hawkins | |
| This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and attend them all: Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. | Rumi | |
| A reliable indicator we have entered present moment awareness is if our experience no matter how uncomfortable it may feel at anyu given moment is infused with gratefulness. | Michael Brown | |
| Feelings buried alive never die. | Karol K Truman | |
| Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything — anger, anxiety, or possessions — we cannot be free | Thich Nhat Hanh, | |
| It is said that most people spend their lives regretting the past and fearing the future; therefore, they are unable to experience joy in the present. | Dr David Hawkins | |
| Even though the past has gone and can’t be altered, and the future isn’t yet manifest, we choose to mentally occupy these illusory places instead of fully entering and experiencing the one moment we actually occupy – this moment now. | Michael Brown | |
| Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction | Shinjo Ito | |
| The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty | Seneca | |
| Heighten your awareness in all phases of your life. As you become more conscious of what you are feeling, what you are thinking, what you are saying and what you are doing, you will experience how heightened awareness facilitates results. | Karol K Truman | |
| Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control. | Adyashanti | |
| Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. | Lama Surya Das | |
| Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. | Mooji | |
| But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. | Matthew 6:15 | |
| Our current time-based experience is a perceptual hell guarded by the bars of our unintegrated fear, anger, and grief. It doesn’t take us anywhere. It never did, and it never will | Michael Brown | |
| True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience. | Adyashanti | |
| Surrender is not a weakness it is strength. It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme – to the cosmic unfolding | Mooji | |
| Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home — at ease | Lama Surya Das | |
| You will find that as you become more and more aware, observant, and alert to your challenges as they occur, and see them for the opportunities and gifts they are—opportunities for growth—you will want to give thanks for them, otherwise your growth will be empty and void. GIVE THANKS IN ALL THINGS because JOY is preceded by GRATITUDE. | Karol K. Truman | |
| Desire, especially strong desire (e.g., cravingness), frequently blocks our getting what we want. | Dr David Hawkins | |
| What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being. | Adyashanti | |
| Buddhism teaches that joy and happiness arise from letting go. Please sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are things you’ve been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go. | Thich Nhat Hanh | |
| Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain. Buddhism perceives the beauty of change, for life is like music in this: if any note or phrase is held for longer than its appointed time, the melody is lost. Thus Buddhism may be summed up in two phrases: “Let go!” and “Walk on!” Drop the craving for self, for permanence, for particular circumstances, and go straight ahead with the movement of life. | Alan Watts | |
| Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. | Mooji | |
| Choose not to buy into a negative belief system. How does this work in everyday life? Let’s take a common example. The newspapers report unemployment is at a record high. The television news commentator states: No jobs are available. At this point, we are free to refuse to buy into the negative thought form. We can say instead, Unemployment does not apply to me. By refusing to accept the negative belief, it now has no hold over our own life. | Dr David Hawkins | |
| There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. | Adyashanti | |
| Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree. | Mooji |
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