Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. — Melissa Marr
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto. — Socrates
We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke
In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on. — Taylor Swift
You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other. — Charles Bukowski
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. — Nhat Hanh
When something or someone is no longer bringing you up, but pulling you down – it’s time to let go. — Mandy Hale
Life is balance of holding on and letting go. — Rumi
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. — Eckhart Tolle
Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness — Nhat Hanh
Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. — Kate Winslet
Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. — Buddha
Letting go doesn’t mean wiping away negative thoughts, feelings, and ideas completely. The truth is that these thoughts will always arise—it is what we do with them that makes the difference. — Jay Shetty
Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way. — Jack Kornfield
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. — C. S. Lewis
Short Letting Go Of A Relationship Quotes
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. — Guy Finley
It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. — J. C. Watts
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on. — Alan Cohen
Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it. — Ginni Rometty
You only know you love her when you let her go. — Passenger
Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. — Cecil Day-Lewis
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. — Ray Bradbury
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. — Roy T. Bennett
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra
Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of? — Jhene Aiko
Letting Go Of A Relationship Image Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Letting Go And Moving On Quotes
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein
Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life. — Joel Osteen
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life. — Joel Osteen
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. — C. S. Lewis
You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you — Tablo
Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on. — Macklemore
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it. — Natalie Imbruglia
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. — Ann Landers
Love And Letting Go Quotes
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find. — Franz Kafka
Life and love go on, let the music play. — Johnny Cash
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out! — Unknown Author
If you went to bed crying and woke up crying, it's time to reconsider some things. When tears outweigh the smiles, the love is fading. Don't hold on to someone who is desperately trying to let you go. — Tony Gaskins
The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize. — Kabir
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. — Mary Oliver
Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change. — Anita Moorjani
Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. — Sayings
Need To Move On Quotes
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. — Thomas Merton
When you are trying to move mountains you want-and need-people on your side who want to move them with you. — Jamie Oliver
We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's unnecessary and it's not advantageous in many respects. We believe that culture itself will not liberate us. We're going to need some stronger stuff. — Huey Newton
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. — Chief Seattle
I've always believed that anyone can achieve their dreams, regardless. I've always had this attitude about no excuses. A belief that I can go on and do what I need to do. To go on, to succeed, regardless. — Kyle Maynard
As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player. — Neil Innes
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. — Mitch Albom
I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon. — Malcolm Turnbull
Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now. — Melody Beattie
Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on how many children the out-of-towners brought with them who kicked the back of your seat from Phoenix to Flagstaff and got their gum caught in your hair. — Erma Bombeck
Breakups And Moving On Quotes
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver
Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don't have to forget who that person was to you, but you do have to accept that they aren't that person anymore. — Drake
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having. — Sarah Mlynowski
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. — Graham Greene
Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go. — Lenny Santos
Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has only strengthened who you are today.
If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while. — Greg Behrendt
I haven't slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways. — Drake
Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go. — Lenny Santos
The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. — Iyanla Vanzant
Time To Let Go Quotes
We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever. — Tite Kubo
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
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me. — Harriet Tubman
Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for.
People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression. — Byron Katie
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this. — Terry Pratchett
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it… it’s over. It can hurt you no more. — Mandy Hale
Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce? — Leonard Ravenhill
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. — Octavia Butler
It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. — J. Oswald Sanders
Learn To Let Go Quotes
It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path. — Katharine Drexel
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn. — Shane Koyczan
Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares. — A. B. Simpson
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. — Brian Weiss
We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired. — Charles Fillmore
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go. — Yao Ming
God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another. — Mike Tyson
Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation. — Nhat Hanh
Moving On Letting Go Quotes
When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness. — Kid Cudi
Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it. — Tony Robbins
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
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
There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted. — Gale Sayers
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. — Gerald Jampolsky
Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next. — Will Smith
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao Tzu
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
I don't care about losing people that don't wanna be in my life anymore. I've lost people that meant the world to me and I'm still doing just fine. — 50 Cent
Failed Relationship Quotes
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. — James Hillman
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones. — Steve Martin
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. — Steve Martin
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. — Paul Watzlawick
When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle. — Shannon Alder
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there. — Julia Roberts
If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. — Mary Karr
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free. — Judith Lewis Herman
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth — Theodor Reik
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. — Marian Keyes
Letting Things Go Quotes
If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change. — Tony Gaskins
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. — Caroline Myss
Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally. — Conor McGregor
Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging. — Marsha M. Linehan
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust. — Aldrich Ames
Only a handful of people are honest when they sing. A lot of people sing about very vague things, or they'll sing about someone breaking up with them, but a lot of people don't go too deep into their past and stuff, because they don't want it to be let out. I just do it anyway. — Ronnie Radke
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen
What keeps a person passive and compliant is fear of repercussions, but once you let go of your attachment to things that don’t ultimately matter – money, career, physical safety – you can overcome that fear. — Glenn Greenwald
The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily. — Robert Adams
Today let me reassure you, God knows right where you are and He knows how to get you to where you need to be. Even when things don’t go the way you planned, His hand is on you. — Victoria Osteen
It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there. — Frances Conroy
The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time. — Caroline Myss
God is interested in developing your character. At times He lets you proceed, but He will never let you go too far without discipline to bring you back. In your relationship with God, He may let you make a wrong decision. Then the Spirit of God causes you to recognize that it is not God's will. He guides you back to the right path. — Henry Blackaby
Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of. — Daniel Pearce
I've been in those relationships. You go through years of your life and at a certain point you wake up and you go, god, what am I doing here? What have I spent the last three years doing? Part of it is learning, this process you've gotta go through. You have to recognize the point at which you're not learning anymore, and be able to let it go. — Michael Franti
Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to. — Robert Breault
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.' — Richard Jeni
Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women. — Junot Diaz
When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I had a relationship with an Italian chick that was built on just fighting and sex. As much as all women won't let go of stuff, Italian girls won't let go of anything. And she punched really hard. I got tired of the arguing it took to get to the sex. — Denis Leary
Let me be clear that I'm not God so I can't tell you who is and isn't going to heaven. What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer, I am eternally secure. I gave my heart to Christ and that gift of salvation is irrevocable. — Alan Chambers
I think with relationships you have to risk getting hurt. You have to learn to almost know how to let your heart go when that time comes for that right person. You have to be open to having a friendship with somebody of the opposite sex. We can't let fear keep us from being open to relationships. — Rebecca St. James
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors. — James Laughlin
Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together. — Marianne Williamson
In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family trees. And at the end of each book I'll pack it all away. It takes me a while to do it - it's like a relationship that way; there's a period of letting - go, of grief, in a way - but then I box it up, label it, and put it in the attic. — Maggie O'Farrell
I never listen to any of my music after it comes out, unless I hear it in a cafe or whatever. I'll think, "I forgot how it was so slow or how minimal it felt compared to how it's become live," because you start having a relationship to the songs live. After an album is finished, I really let go. — Yukimi Nagano
You got to be able to love again. You got to give everybody a fair chance. Everybody deserves a fair chance. I'm talking about building that wall, coming out of a relationship and feeling like, well, I'm going to hold back. You turn into your ex. When you find a person that's worth letting your wall down , and you feel it in your stomach, just don't fight it. Just let it happen. — Teyana
Yeah, letting go - even just musically, aside from emotionally - I find that quite challenging. Knowing the right time for letting go of my album, for instance, was a really big challenge. Knowing when to put the red flags up and say, "It's done..." And also, emotionally, with relationships. — Kimbra
The process of praying isn't about letting God know what you need, it's about letting you know more completely how much you need God and how vital having a relationship with Him is. — Karen Barber
I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship all of a sudden with myself. Your face changes, things change - that's just kind of what happens. It's hard, though, in this industry, because I think so much importance is put on how you look, and I'm not brave enough to be like, "You know what? I'm just going to let it happen. Whatever. I'm so cool with every line on my face." — Kristen Stewart
It's a new day! Let go of old issues, relationships, or apprehensions that are holding you back. Decide to move forward using the knowledge you've gained, from your failures and triumphs, while making room for new accomplishments .
Cleaning isn't just good for your house, it's healthy for your mind. Adopt the attitude that you can and will achieve your dreams, because it's true. You have greatness within you! — Les Brown
I don't want to get too much into my personal relationships but I will say I am actually doing the single thing right now. I want someone that I can have fun with and laugh with. I love to laugh and I'm really sarcastic, so it's important that she can take a joke. I think if you are going to be with someone for a while you really need someone you can let loose with and let go of all the stress of the day. — Matt Lanter
I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things? — Dylan Walsh
Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering and to simply let go of the thoughts and begin again. It is a way of changing our relationship to our thoughts, so we're not so consumed by them, with no sense of space. Having a newly spacious relationship to our thoughts brings both peace and freedom. — Sharon Salzberg
It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire. We also have resistance to the space and independence we need. So we go back and forth, not letting ourselves have one or the other. It all boils down to this: Are you willing to have your relationships be a pathway to fully revealing yourself and your potential? If you answer is Yes, real intimacy can be yours on a daily basis. — Gay Hendricks
There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life. — Oswald Chambers
I think love is something you figure out later on in life, and you have to make a lot of mistakes to figure out what love is, which is why we all have shitty, tumultuous relationships when we're younger, and it's harder to let go. — Alexandra Daddario
When people say "Let it go," what they really mean is "Get over it," and that's not a helpful thing to say. 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"; this recognizes that the mind won't let go and the problem may not go away, and it allows you to form a healthier relationship with what's bothering you. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection. — Mark Epstein
From now on, don't do this, even for me. We don't have an employer-employee relationship right now. I'm a person and you're a person. Why does it have to be so one-sided? Why do only women...Why only you, Yoo Kyeong, have to do things like that? 'So, I'll try to look good, in any way that I can.' Let go of such thoughts. When you're on TV, you look wonderful, full of confident. You shine. — Lee Se-joo
Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him. — Lisa Kleypas
Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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