Top 20 Letting Go Quotes
Loss is a natural part of life, but sometimes it can be hard to go about letting go and moving on. Whether you’ve lost a loved one, ended a romantic relationship or just lost touch with a friend, these letting go quotes can help you in the process of accepting what’s happened and moving on.
Top 20 Letting Go Quotes
1. “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
2. “We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy moment, or say goodbye just one last time, we never can, because the sands of time continue to fall, and we can’t turn the hourglass over.” – Unknown
3. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Herman Hesse
4. “One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.” – Michael Cibenko
5. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis
6. “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer
7. “Change is never easy, you fight to hold on, and you fight to let go.” – The Wonder Years
8. “There’s no need to miss someone from your past- There’s a reason they didn’t make it to your future” – Unknown
9. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Headstone
10. “Every exit is an entry somewhere.” -Tom Stoppard
11. “True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.” – Unknown
12. “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.” – Unknown
13. “Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” – Ann Landers
14. “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
15. “Every breath is an opportunity to receive and let go. I receive love and I let go of pain.” – Brenda MacIntyre
16. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
17. “Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.” – Anonymous
18. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
19. “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
20. “The Tao Te Ching says, 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. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God’s law.” – Mary Manin Morrissey
Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find her/him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I’m not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love – well, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived…im also n the learning process to….(”,)
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hi everyone,
sometimes we have to move on and take all the pain that we have to endure in order to be okay again. letting go is different from saying goodbye. goodbye means you will just need a time and if you are ready to hold that person again you can come back. but letting go is that you have to forget and be ready to start a new because if you will continue to be with the person who you want to be with but still he is rejecting you or does not give you value you are like buying a gun full of unlimited bullets shooting your own self. sa una lang yan masakit but as time goes by the pain will eventually heal and only scar will remain. lahat naman tayo dumadaan sa ganyang stage that you have to let go of something in order to find someone better.
i was just 18 that time when i felt something special to a person which i really know that my illusion cannot be and really impossibly can come true because he is going to be a priest. he is a seminarian that time. we are very good to each other and all of the time that i need someone to comfort me specially that i am passing in a very difficult stage of my life he is always there to listen and to wipe away all my tears. i really cant explain why but even if how hard it is to stop that stupid feelings still it grows. but then i was badly hurt at the end because i really expected something because his actions are louder than words. when the day he was ordained i was totally broken and my tears just flow but i still tried to smile when our eyes met.
i try to move on and found a rebound love but instead of learning to let go of the past i become more lonely and thinking of all if only…………………………….
that relationship doesn’t last instead it also causes trouble. so again i tried to move on………….walang katapusang move on……………..
until such time when i have no tears anymore and all the pains were vanished i realized that its up to you how long will you remain stupid… i learn to let go of the past now and i am glad to find someone better. and i was so happy to think that my first love even if he was not with me still he serve GOD…………………..
hi,thank you for ur inspiring quotations.nbuhyan ako ng loob.love it.
haha pag xur flor kekek
I am separated … got into the virtual world of chatting…At first it was all just for fun… To dump was all my game, sometimes I do get to, until such time that I met this guy in one of those chat-rooms. To make the story short, we fell in love.. It was perfect, tomorrow brings a promise of good life with him.
Though, it’s my past that has started ta haunt me, one of those whom I so call “my ex boyfriend” got so dirty that he started creating some false stories about me. That everybody believes in. I admit i wasn’t that good but I’ve never done anything to ruin my dignity nor somebody’s life.
I know deep inside me that I have found the guy that I wanted to share my life with in person of my present love.. Some may say it’s impossible but for me it’s not. It’s just hard not to believe every words he would said. But then again, he just easily gave up. Reason? he would rather believe those people who are not worth believing for. It’s my their word against mine and he has taken their side He said he’s beginning to have doubts.
one time when we are talking, I asked him, why so cold? he said maybe because of work.. Though I know deep inside, something’s wrong.. I can sense that the wind is no longer blowing on my side. I feel so helpless though I can do nothing but to hold my peace.
One sad morning, he said bluntly…”I’m giving up” without another word he left, just like that. My body turned into a cold tomb and I can’t stop the tears falling down on my face. How can he leave me like that, when we are just building our dreams. How can those people be so cold hearted not to give a chance to other to be happy. I tried to win him back, but all i could get was rejection…He could have been my future, the I heard his friend say, you have let him go, he can no longer love you the he used to, he’s now in love with his Best Friend.
Sigh….pain…tears…but i don’t have any regrets, I have been true and yet this is all i got. I’ve laid down my cards but he turned his back on me…I still love him though I have come to realize that even him his not worth fighting for….
Hi Katana, I read your message and I felt your strength and yet your pain, I am only writing to you because I am a spiritual healer and I have spoken to many many people. Your time in love and with those who came into your life has not given you all you deserve and should have but I hope at some stage you will find the right person, all those we meet, all those who cross our paths are for a reason, and you have crossed the bridge before and will do so again.
Heal a little and remember you have been loved back as well -and those who do not fight for that do not deserve to stand with you x
Thankyou all for your comments. I met someone off the net. All of it was fake. Even I began to be fake. Iv ended up being hurt. Guna stick with the real world for dating. Just not yet
Thankyou all for your comments. I met someone off the net. All of it was fake. Even I began to be fake. Iv ended up being hurt. Guna stick with the real world for dating. Just not yet
Not ready 2give heart
I was gone through with two unsuccessful relationship..Two relationship with different experience..The First relationship was when I was 24 years old, He marry me and we were blessed with two adorable daughters, I thought we will be happy as what I have expected, until I found out that he was already married with another woman prior to our marriage and he has 3 kids with her.. I said I nee to leave behind this kind of messy relationship I am stupid if I will still continue my relationship to him knowing that I will hurt and steal the love intended for his 3 kids. I sacrifice even we have also two daughters, because I know from the fact that I can make it I can move on with out him. But It’s hard until I met this guy from Australia last 2002, we exchages emails and he calls me all the time..I said to myself I can start moving on from my first relationship coz I found someone whome I will going to love and cherished..We started our relationship on 2003 and he was working then at Washington DC USA. We continue our relationship until such time I need to leave Manila to work in other country.
To cut the story short we’ve gone through on that period of time, with out seeing each other, until the day come that we met again in Canberra ACT last 2007 after 3 years of not seeing each other..WE revived our relationship and decided to get married this coming September 18, 2010…BUT UNFORTUNATELY, this will not happened anymore..we decided not cool off the wedding last June 25 after we went to Manila to meet my parents and Family..Maybe he don’t like my culture having a very close family ties..He wants something that he will never have any responsibilities..The mere fact that I already noticed that to him long time ago, but I just closed my eyes about the realities coz I LOVE HIM so much..HE hurt me a love but the most painful one, is when I found out that he is DATING a 50 Years old Chinese Woman who happened to have a 23 years old son, that he don’t have any responsibility to be put on his Shoulder unlike me I have 13 and 9 years old daughter..They been dating even when we are still together, the problem is I am far from him and I cannot give to him the satisfaction on his Physical needs, unlike here she is just very near..I am now starting to let my past burried and not to think about it anymore…But for me it’s hard, especially I gave him all my love with out any reservation, Trusted him so much on his word of mouth he always uttered to me everytime we were together and most especially the date ofr our supposed to be wedding is getting closer (Sept. 18, 2010)..But all of those things were LIES and hypocrisy coz he has his own platform on his life that will not fit mine..I want to let him go out of my life…And I don’t want to Miss someone from my past..Because I know there is a reason why he didn’t make it to my future..There is always a purpose!!! I wish I can easily overcome and leave behind the pain I have cause by a PLAYFUL person..I still have a long way to go anyway he is 56 and me I am only 38, I need not to worry about things..I just need to enjoy what I am having right now..Having a good career, having families who loves me and especially having my two daughters who will love me until I get old…Letting go it’s very hard, if you have started to let go the one whome you are holding on it’s very easy to us to MOVE ON….
do you know what happens when you continously ignore people?
youre teaching them to live a happy life, without you.. sad but true…
That was the most powerful thing I have ever read on the internet, brilliant and true!
letting go is easy u just gotta loosen up and look to the future for better and brighter opportunities. You should aspire to live 100 years, if u see it that way then all this temporary stuff for the past 30 weeks is nothing. 10, 20 years you will be in a completlely different world with different people in your life. Life is long we have time don’t keep worrying about these temporary and small problems. Don’t think about the past for long your only hurting yourself by doing so, everyone else has moved on so why dont you to? Just get up, take a deep breathe, and move on. Trust me, its the best thing you can ever do.
As some one once said “Three words to describe everything i know about life, “it goes on”
… only i can say that there is no exact formula when moving on…
its how you deal with it… (n_n),
… do not stop loving even if you were hurt in the past… sometimes, pain teaches us on how to be strong person…
……..alam nyo wag na kayong mag english….hehe char lang po…
♥♥♥ maybe God wants us to meet some wrong persons first before meeting the right one. If you failed your past relationship, do not repent on that just be happy that you once loved and loved by someone..
Look,Love always will cause us pain trouble and sometime they even make us feel disheartening.But one who lets it go early, is one who suffer less. Between love, let us think love positively,Giving up means you’re strong enough to let go.
Jealousy means you care too much for tht person.
Being A pessimistic person is important.
i agree with khaleb pau…
ganun naman talaga.
when you love dapat buong buo.
(p.s dont forget the morale values that you’ve learned and was taught to you).
you should love unconditionally…(quiet hard) but thats what love should be,
because if not…
then it wouldn’t be considered as true love at all.
it doesn’t matter to how many times you’ve been hurt or to how this people guttered your chest and shattered your heart and left you to bled out (ouch!)…yes! the damage will cause you too much soreness…
but you wont die…
you wont die physically…
but spiritually,& emotionally…you will…
why?
because you continuously nurture the hurt.
therefore it never cease to grow in your heart,
until it consumes the whole totality to what is left of you (the former loving person).
to why the only remedy is to;
let go…
let go of the sadness,
the ache,
the pain,
and
to learn how to forgive the unlovable person.
there must be no boundaries when you love…
this is what true love means…
I’m not a cheater!I never cheat on you!Let your friends think that way for me!
but all i know is that along what we have, I love, ONLY YOU!
I would be hypocrite if I’m gonna say that I didn’t enjoy the times we’ve been together, Yes I’m happy being with you but maybe this is just a worldly happiness with you!YES I love you, yet I love the faith in my heart even more!I love Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ so much! I want you to be the man that I will marry someday but you are not the one God created only for me!Please realize that their something more to life, that maybe after everything we’ve been through we will just turn’s out as individual people facing individual life! I’m too scared to lose you because I gave you everything, even the thing that I must not do and give, to proved how much I love you but if I’m gonna lose you and let you go..Is there a possibility that someone will love me and accept me as a whole even though I’m totally empty..?
I though I would be strong enough to resist the temptations and stand for who and what I am,yet everything is gone, I learn to let go what I know is right because I though that loving you is perfectly right and the sad fact is I can’t do anything to bring it back but to regret it!
I love you so much “pah” but I need to let you go…even though it truly gives me the unexplainable pain I felt…(crying….)
What’s the point of moving on if it’s going to be the same crap, which most of the times it is?
Because one day it wont be x
yes i am here to find a love and who will be the love of my heart now
hold on,or let go?
he started in a game
i accept it as true
and together we see it through
not knowing that loves grow
discovering we are opposite about everything
arguing about everything
yet we can laugh and smile in everything
because love is everything (all that matter)
here we are facing a big problem
thinking we will never be
should we let go?or hold on?
he said, yes,we must let go…
i said, yes, we should…
love said, no i don’t, just hold on…
and we found ourselves
with each others arm
crying….still loving each other
waiting if we can still make it through
time goes by..
sitting on the corner of stronger love
that we never imagined to last this far
everyday is so much more than yesterday
loving has its deeper meaning..
all the opposite becomes happiness
the craziness and immature acts
enjoying the pain and hurt
that true love gives..
we know that everything has an end
we know that we’re still young
we know that there’s something more to life
we know that love can wait in the right time
should we let go?or hold on?
- I Have Dated this Boy For 4 year’s off and on , and i thought we was so good togethere , but we broke up so much and it was so hard to let him go , but i miss him and need him so much .
how will you say move – on to someone if that someone will die if she will let go? if she is too stubborn to listen… if holding on to a promise is whta keeping her alive?
I was inlove with this korean guy 2 years ago…
he captivated my heart…he respected me as a woman..he respected my belief…and everything…
he loved me very much …but he had to let me go.
…we are of different culture…he had to stay in korea..
…..it was my first time to cry for a man..
that time my heart died….but ive never showed it to anyone..
i was smiling,..laughing but i was crying inside…
until now,..i cant even date a guy …i always compare them to him…
i cant love anyone…..
my head says “let go”
my heart says” no”… im so stupid..
now…i decided to stay single forever… ^^
i’ve been married for over 4 years now
– and in that 4 years things hadn’t been perfect.. i would say more often we bumped in to rough roads but managed to make it through.. but this time i don’t think we’ll make it through.. we fought about a very simple thing.. our pride bot got in the way.. nobody wants to say sorry..and here we are trying to make it on our own.. its as if our marriage didnt matter… it was as if nothing in the relationship mattered.. im smiling and laughing at friends’ jokes but deep inside o’ meeh im bleeding and in so much pain.. im in grief.. im not closing my door yet.. but its getting there!!