168 Love And Letting Go Quotes

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Famous Love And Letting Go Quotes

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. — Kate Winslet

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. - Melissa Marr

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. — Melissa Marr

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

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

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on. — Taylor Swift

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

Life is balance of holding on and letting go. — Rumi

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

The amazing thing about letting go into it is that you find that this thing called love is supportive. That it holds us. — Duncan Trussell

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

Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That. — Hafez

Anyone can say the love someone....It's loving someone enough to let them go that will prove that love. — Jessica Jung

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness — Nhat Hanh

Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep. — Ajahn Brahm

Short Love And Letting Go Quotes

  • Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. — Buddha
  • If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours — James Patterson
  • Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it. — Ginni Rometty
  • Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto. — Socrates
  • All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. — Havelock Ellis
  • Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. — Eckhart Tolle
  • Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. — Ray Bradbury
  • Love is the flower you've got to let grow. — John Lennon
  • Trust involves letting go and knowing God will catch you. — James Dobson
  • Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go. — Vincent Cassel

Top 10 Love And Letting Go Quotes

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. — Kahlil Gibran

Life and love go on, let the music play. - Johnny Cash

Life and love go on, let the music play. — Johnny Cash

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

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

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

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. - C. S. Lewis

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 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

Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me. — Cassandra Clare

Love And Letting Go Image Quotes

Love and letting go quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

Buddhist Quotes

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha

Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen

Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY; It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING. — Hamza Yusuf

Love and letting go quote Keep people in your life that truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, inspire you, enhance you
Keep people in your life that truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, inspire you, enhance you and make you happy. If you have people who do none of the above, let them go.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing. — Sakyong Mipham

If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good. — Shantideva

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life. — Dogen

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Confucius

Change And Love And Letting Go Quotes

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

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

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!' — Willie Nelson

Love and letting go quote In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how greatly you lived, and how gracefully
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how greatly you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past — Emily Giffin

Not judging is another way of letting go of fear and experiencing Love. When we learn not to judge others - and totally accept them, and not want to change them - we can simultaneously learn to accept ourselves. — Gerald Jampolsky

For me, I need people who will respect my vision and will back it and won't go changing things without letting me know. I would love some people who I feel like I could work with on a personal level as well. — Thomston

Love and letting go quote To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it agains
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.

I live every day full of gratitude for the body in which I live, treating it with great love and respect. It allows me to enjoy life, experiencing everything that I perceive, exploring the events that hook my attention, modifying what I can change, and letting go of whatever I cannot. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Sometimes in love it just gets to the point where I have to give up. I have to give up trying and I have to give up believing because I know things won't change. To me, giving up isn't being weak. Giving up is being strong enough to let go. — Taylor Swift

Love Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affectionBuddha

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

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Theresa

Love and letting go quote If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you it's yours. It it doesn't, it never was.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you it's yours. It it doesn't, it never was.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Roy Croft

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. — Roy Croft

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. — William Shakespeare

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. - Bob Marley

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. — Bob Marley

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. — Anonymous

Love Means Letting Go Quotes

Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on. — Macklemore

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. — Gloria Naylor

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go. — Melissa de la Cruz

When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean, "Be my secret." I want us to go back down to that root. I want you to be the one who loves me. I want to be the one who loves you. — David Levithan

As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go. — Ellen Hopkins

Love means knowing when to let go. — Tony Parsons

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go — Tony Parsons

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling? — Beth Ditto

Roland, love means not being afraid to let yourself go, trusting that I will desire everything you have to offer. -Rosaline (Roland's love) — Lauren Kate

giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go — Taylor Swift

Letting Go And Moving On Quotes

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

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

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

You can't start the next chapter of your life - Michael McMillian

You can't start the next chapter of your life — Michael McMillian

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

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney

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

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted. — Gale Sayers

Not Letting 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

Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness is in your life it is because your soul is giving consent to it, and you are retaining it. Let it go. Cast it out and let God have His way in your life. — John G. Lake

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

You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history. — T. D. Jakes

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church. — Bill Hybels

Be patient. Let God answer your question on His schedule, not yours. - T. B. Joshua

Be patient. Let God answer your question on His schedule, not yours. — T. B. Joshua

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this. — Terry Pratchett

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. — Nelson Mandela

Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. — Ronald Reagan

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. — Rachel Naomi Remen

Learn To Let Go Quotes

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

We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired. — Charles Fillmore

Who cannot pray to God, let him go to sea — Swedish Proverbs

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. - Marilyn Monroe

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

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way. — Joel Osteen

To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion. — B. J. Palmer

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

When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness. - Kid Cudi

When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness. — Kid Cudi

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

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

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

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

Moving On Letting Go Quotes

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it. — Tony Robbins

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

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

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

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go. — Jeffrey McDaniel

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. — John Seely Brown

If someone ghosts you, respect the dead and move on. — Steven Bartlett

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

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More 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

The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play. — Johnny Cash

Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us. Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer. Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again. Love heals, forgives, and makes whole. — Ernest Holmes

When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let go of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God's love within me and around me. — Henri Nouwen

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full. — Anselm of Canterbury

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them. — Medgar Evers

If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon — Christopher Paolini

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people. — Mother Teresa

Part of the process of letting go is releasing any thoughts of how you or your piece will be received. When making art, the audience comes last. Let’s not consider how a piece will be received or a release strategy until the work is finished and we love it. — Rick Rubin

What we call diversity -- in the extreme. In other words, affirmative action programs for every conceivable category of humanity that the left wants to come up with, whether it's someone who is a gender neutral or homosexual or whatever else, the left loves to put us into categories and push this. And the people that went along with it and said,' sure, let's put women into the combat forces. Let's have women everywhere.' Let's do whatever we want to do. We're going to create this brave new world where everyone is the same. There are no differences, nothing matters. So I think that's where we are. — Douglas Macgregor

If you love something, set it free. — Abraham Lincoln

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know. — Les Paul

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. — Mother Teresa

Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone. — Celine Dion

my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go! — Francine Rivers

When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience. — Jesse Dylan

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand. — Mother Teresa

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go. — Nicholas Sparks

You always feel better when you sing. Music touches people's hearts. You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity, it just moves you and it will let you cry. It's worth it doing a show and when you touch a crowd and move yourself at the same — Jewel

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back. — Jodi Picoult

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. — Suzanne Somers

Let the Black man go - stop lying to us that you love us. And if you really love us, let us go and give us some of this territory that we can call our own; and give us the billions of dollars that we can get started with land and with tractors and the things that will make us an independent nation. — Louis Farrakhan

Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again. — Rachel Naomi Remen

If you don't get offended by somebody scoring on you then I don't know what to tell you. That is like somebody breaking into your house and just taking your video game out of your hand and you just let it happen. I know if you do that to me, it ain't going to happen. I love my Xbox. — J. R. Smith

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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