Inspiring Quotes About Letting Go: Embrace Freedom and Growth

"The truth is unless you let go—forgive yourself, forgive the situation, realize the past is over—you cannot move forward."

- Steve Maraboli

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul."

- Brigitte Nicole

"If you want to move forward, you need to let go of the past that drags you down."

- Amit Ray

"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."

- Alice Walker

"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

"As we close, you might sense to yourself that this is a life practice of learning to live. Surrender the thoughts and surrender into the feelings… and surrender into that larger loving space. And you can feel from your own intuitive wisdom that remembering your belonging to something larger IS a pathway to peace and to freedom. And just knowing that will keep calling you home over and over."

- Tara Brach

"You can only lose what you cling to."

- Buddha

"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

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life."

- Brené Brown

"When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness."

- Pema Chödrön

"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

"When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss."

- Robert Thurman

"Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking."

- Rumi

"Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images."

- Rumi

"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

"Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past."

- Angelina Jolie

"Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over."

- Guy Finley

"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."

- Steve Maraboli

"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."

- Shannon L. Alder

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

- Lao Tzu

"Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you."

- Marianne Williamson

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace."

- Ajahn Chah

"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

"Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting."

- Jack Kornfield

"Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world."

- Marianne Williamson

"It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on."

- Steve Maraboli

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go."

- Hermann Hesse

"The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It’s when it begins."

- Marianne Williamson

"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

"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

"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

"The essence of our practice can be described as transforming suffering into happiness. It’s not a complicated practice, but it requires us to cultivate mindfulness, concentration, and insight. It requires first of all that we come home to ourselves, that we make peace with our suffering, treating it tenderly, and looking deeply at the roots of our pain. It requires that we let go of useless, unnecessary sufferings and take a closer look at our idea of happiness."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"It has been stupidly difficult to let go, but that is what has been needed. I had allowed myself to get overanxious, clutching at what seemed sure to pass, and clutching is the surest way to murder love."

- May Sarton

"Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you."

- Caroline Myss

"You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk."

- Louise Smith

"Forgiveness and the release of the past open the creative flow of life, supporting all levels of mind, heart, body, emotion, and spirit."

- Jamie Sams

"You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go."

- Drew Gerald

"You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever 'the old' means for you."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"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

"We spend enormous energy trying to control what cannot be controlled. Is it possible to trust what remains when you let go of any attempt to control?"

- Gangaji

"To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own."

- Jack Kornfield

"Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again."

- Dawson’s Creek

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Life moves on and so should we."

- Spencer Johnson

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are."

- Sharon Salzberg

"By investigating both the grasping itself and the object of our grasping, it becomes possible to know which of these we need to let go of. If the object of grasping is harmful, then we let go of that. If the object of grasping is beneficial, then we can let go of the grasping so that what is beneficial remains."

- Gil Fronsdal

"What we don’t recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You’ll soon start to suffocate."

- Deepak Chopra

"Surrender is not a weakness, it is a strength. It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme – to the cosmic unfolding."

- Mooji

"When things start to fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And that’s cause for celebration."

- Pema Chödrön

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go."

- Hermann Hesse

"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

"Forgiveness is the natural outcome of letting go of inner conflict."

- Amoda Maa

"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 of the past that drags you down."

- Amit Ray

"Surrender is a journey from outer turmoil to inner peace."

- Sri Chinmoy

"Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring for them in a flexible and wise way. In meditation, we pay attention to our body with care and respect."

- Jack Kornfield

"Six Words of Advice: Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest."

- Tilopa, translated by Ken McLeod

"The ultimate act of power is surrender."

- Krishna Das

"Deep letting go can bring us to a place where we may feel the groundlessness of our being. This can be very terrifying, so we hold on. But if we can move beyond the fear, we may see that these feelings are really the precursor to freedom."

- Ruth King

"Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"Just try to keep your mind in the present. Whatever arises in the mind, just watch it and let go of it. Don't even wish to be rid of thoughts. Then the mind will return to its natural state."

- Ajahn Chah

"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it."

- Carl Jung

"Imagine holding on to a hot burning coal. You would not fear letting go of it. In fact, once you noticed that you were holding on, you would probably drop it quickly. But we often do not recognize how we hold on to suffering. It seems to hold on to us."

- Joseph Goldstein

"You are afraid of surrender because you don't want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"When the boundless, radiant heart is a part of the atmosphere, it sets the conditions that are useful in releasing and letting go. We are not making release happen, but rather we are creating the conditions for release to happen."

- Ruth King

"And yet, letting go does not mean ‘getting rid of.’ It means ‘allowing it to be as it is. Let it come, and let it go.’"

- Kittisaro

"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

"The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality."

- Michael Singer

"Enjoy what you can and ignore the rest. Let’s not waste any energy fighting things that are outside our control."

- Paulo Coelho

"By letting go of this long-held inner drama I become a little more liberated and useful. In essence it’s bad that it happened but it’s worse that I allow myself to be affected by it now. I cannot control the past but I can control the present through forgiveness."

- Russell Brand

"The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back."

- Ram Dass

"Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control."

- Jack Kornfield

"To listen entails a fundamental letting go of self-centeredness. We have to be willing to put down our own thoughts, views, and feelings temporarily to truly listen."

- Oren Jay Sofer

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."

- Epictetus

"Whatever comes, let it come, what stays let stay, what goes let go."

- Papaji

"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."

- Ray Bradbury

"The more you let go the more you accomplish."

- Stephen C. Paul

"Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over."

- Nicole Sobon

"We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go."

- Frederick Buechner

"You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you."

- Jojo Moyes

"Letting go of old patterns that no longer work for us is exhilarating."

- Sue Patton Thoele

"Dare to live by letting go."

- Tom Althouse

"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.

"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 Landers

"Let go of the thoughts that don’t make you strong."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open."

- Ralph Marston

"In examining our own lives, we might be able to spot the heavy weight of yesterday's deeds that we persist in carrying around with us. But continuing to carry harsh and negative feelings from the past can be like picking up a pebble in your shoe while you are out walking. You can stop and remove the pebble, or you can continue to walk and let the pebble irritate your foot and cause pain. The choice is yours."

- John Marks Templeton

"You can stop and remove the pebble, or you can continue to walk and let the pebble irritate your foot and cause pain. The choice is yours."

- John Marks Templeton

"It's not a matter of letting go, you would if you could. Instead of 'Let it go' we should probably say 'Let it be'."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did."

- Faraaz Kazi

"Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand, and becoming comfortable with not knowing."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over."

- Nicole Sobon

"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

"The creative process is a process of surrender, no control."

- Julia Cameron

"Surrender is like a fish finding the current and going with it."

- Mark Nepo

"Training in letting go helps us let go of those behaviors that interfere with the further deepening of mindfulness. At times the only action needed is letting go of all other actions."

- Gil Fronsdal

"There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it."

- Kate DiCamillo

"She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy."

- Sally Rooney

"You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy."

"In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself."

"To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about. To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive. To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being. To "let go" is not to be in the middle, arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies. To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept. To "let go" is not to nag, scold, or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them. To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it. To "let go" is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To "let go" is to fear less and to love more."

- Unknown

"Feel everything. Let go of everything. Or you will be held captive by everything."

"Letting go is both an art and a practice, one that holds profound power to positively shape our lives."

"Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

"Let go, or be dragged."

"You can only love what you got while you got it."

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

"Letting go of our suffering is the most challenging work we will ever do."

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

"Let go of becoming but never let go of taking action."

"Let go and let the universe do its thing."

"You simply haven’t lived until you learn to let go."

"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."