Learning how to let go is a skill that can make your life happier, more peaceful, and even more productive. In this article, you will find 60 powerful letting go quotes that will inspire you to move forward in your life.
Letting go is a choice to no longer ruminate on things that are out of your control, and to focus on what you can control, instead.
If you’re struggling with fears, attachments, and worries, this article is for you! Check out our collection of 60 letting go quotes!
60 Letting Go Quotes
#1
“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
#2
“When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.” – Louise Hay
#3
“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
#4
“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
#5
“The Bauls say, “Don’t try to force anything.” Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds, waiting, never in a hurry, giving their time to them. The Bauls say, “Everything happens at its right time, everything happens in its own season. Wait, don’t be impatient, don’t be in a hurry. All hurry is greed, and all hurry is a subtle fight.” That which is going to happen will happen. Whenever it is going to happen it will happen; you need not fight existence. You can surrender, you can trust.” – Osho
#6
“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
#7
“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.” – Alan Watts
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#8
“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
#9
“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” ― Roy T. Bennett
#10
“You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your mind. What do you need to let go of? Take a deep breath, relax, and say to yourself, ‘I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all tension. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.’” – Louise Hay
#11
“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
#12
“All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go. I say remember because you knew it already. And you know it still, but that knowledge is being repressed by the society.” – Osho
#13
“Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.” – Dawson’s Creek
#14
“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
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#15
“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
#16
“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” ― Roy T. Bennett
#17
“When you don’t flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you’re holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future.” – Louise Hay
#18
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
#19
“The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego. Then a deep ecstasy will happen between you and your master. Wherever there is a `let-go’, ecstasy happens — that is the law.” – Osho
#20
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
#21
“Pain will leave you, when you let go.” – Jeremy Aldana
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#22
“We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.” – Marianne Williamson
#23
“Sometimes people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.”
#24
“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
#25
“Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering.” – Hal Tipper
#26
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.” – Dalai Lama
#27
“To create a wonderful day sometimes takes just a slight change in the way you look at it. Be willing to let go of an old, negative way that you look at something, and look at it in a new, positive way.” – Louise Hay
#28
“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli
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#29
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung
#30
“Let-go is a deep understanding of the phenomenon that we are part of one existence. We cannot afford to have separate egos; we are one with all. And the all is vast, immense.
Your understanding will help you to go with the whole, wherever it is going. You don´t have a goal separate from the whole, and the whole has no goal. It is not going anywhere.
The understanding of let-go helps you to be simply here, without any goals, without any idea of achievement, without any conflict, struggle or fight, knowing that it is the fighting with yourself which is simply foolish.” – Osho
#31
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm
#32
“The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.” – Shannon L. Alder
#33
“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
#34
“The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new ideas. You cannot walk forward by looking backward. New wine cannot be put into old bottles, for the Bible states that the old bottles will break. You intuitively know what should depart from your life.” – Raymond Charles Barker
#35
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
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#36
“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.”
#37
“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
#38
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
#39
“Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it’s gone for good.” – Eleanor Brownn
#40
“You can’t possibly embrace that new relationship, that new companion, that new career, that new friendship, or that new life you want, while you’re still holding on to the baggage of the last one. Let go… and allow yourself to embrace what is waiting for you right at your feet.” – Steve Maraboli
#41
“Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.” – Anais Nin
#42
“Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.” – Wayne Dyer
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#43
“Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard
#44
“The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it’s just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.” – Louise Hay
#45
“Faith…is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.” – Alan Watts
#46
“It’s very hard to grow, because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.” – Ram Dass
#47
“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
#48
“Let go of your ego’s need to be right. When you’re in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be right or be happy? When you choose the joyous, loving, spiritual mode, your connection to intention is strengthened.” – Wayne Dyer
#49
“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.” – Ralph Marston
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#50
“You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go.”
– Drew Gerald
#51
“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.” – Fridtjof Nansen
#52
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” — Oprah Winfrey
#53
“You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.” – Alan Watts
#54
“Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.” – Roy T. Bennett
#55
“Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.” – Paulo Coelho
#56
“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.” – Gerald Jampolsky
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#57
“I let go of all expectations. People, places, and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.” – Louise Hay
#58
“Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.” – Wayne Dyer
#59
“Letting go isn’t about having the courage to release the past; it’s about having the wisdom to embrace the present.” ― Steve Maraboli
#60
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.” ― Don Miguel Ruiz
We hope you are inspired and motivated by these letting go quotes as much as we are!