88+ Best Quotes And Sayings About Letting Go And Moving On

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Quotes And Sayings About Letting Go And Moving On

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

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. – Lyndon B. Johnson

**Quotes And Sayings About Letting Go And Moving On**

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done. – Robert Downey Jr

If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past. – Dan Brown

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

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

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

Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. – Victor Kiam

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it. – Justin Timberlake

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future. – Alyson Noel

Change has to come for life to struggle forward. – Helen Hollick

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. – Henry Ford

When the world is at your back, and your heart is at your feet…the best way to go on is to just “be”. – Jennifer Varnadore

A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath. – Anthony Liccione

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. – Nicholas Sparks

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t 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

If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it’s time to get up and leave. – Karen Salmansohn

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of ‘Me’, which is basically a tyranny of others. – Stefan Molyneux

You fell in love with my flowers but not my roots, so when Autumn arrived you didn’t know what to do.

I felt an inner peace and softness. My Berlin Wall had been cracked; the toxic relationship between me and that critical voice had been severed. – Penny De Villiers

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be. – C. JoyBell C.

Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page. – Tori Amos

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. – Criss Jami

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

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

You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go. – Jessica Hatchigan

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it. – Ann Lander

Forgiveness means letting go of the past. – Gerald Jampolsky

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist

If you love something, you have to let it go.

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

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. – Havelock Ellis

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. – Tao Te Ching

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction. – Shinjo Ito

When you let go, you are truly free.

You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. – Guy Finley

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. – Dalai Lama

You’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page. – Tori Amos

Life moves on and so should we. – Spencer Johnson

Quotes About Moving On And Letting Go

Study the past if you would define the future. – Confucius

Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward. – Erika Taylor

Broken hearts hurt but they will make you strong.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. – Bryant McGill

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney

Even a rock moves on. – Anthony Liccione

Time flies, people change. You’re not always needed. There are times to move forward and places to let go.

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

Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. – Daphne Rose Kingma

You can only lose what you cling to. – Buddha

Making a big life change can be scary but living with regret is always scarier.

Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to. – Mandy Hale

Some think that holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it’s letting go. – Herman Hesse

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energy moving forward together towards an answer. – Denis Waitley

We don’t want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward. – David Axelrod

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened – Dr. Seuss

If they talk behind your back it stays behind your back. – Elizabeth Enriquez

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles. – C. JoyBell

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. – Steve Maraboli

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

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. – Haruki Murakami

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

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

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. – Steve Maraboli

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. – Roy T. Bennett

I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward”. – Fridtjof Nansen

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe. – C. JoyBell C.

If you really want closure … at some point, you have to shut the door. – Jacki Wells Wunderlin

Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.

To heal a wound, you need to stop touching it.

If you don’t leave your past in the past, it will destroy your future. Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.

The easiest way to teach someone how to treat you is to refuse to give them more opportunities to hurt you. Walk away. – R.H. Sin

Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.

Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.

If you lost it, it’s because you’re meant to find something better. Trust, let go, and make room for what’s coming. – Mandy Hale

Sometimes, we have to let go of what’s killing us, even if it’s killing us to let go.

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

Quotes About Letting Go Of Someone You Love But Can’t Have

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. – Shannon L. Alder

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else. – Phil McGraw

**Quotes About Letting Go Of Someone You Love But Can’t Have**

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. – Jean-Yves Leloup

I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? – Nicholas Sparks

What’s broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. – Margaret Mitchell

Until you let go of all the toxic people in your life you will never be able to grow into your fullest potential. Let them go so you can grow. – DLQ

Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re underappreciated. – Steve Maraboli

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered. – Michael J. Fox

We teach people how to treat us. – Dr. Phil

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won’t go anywhere.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs. – Marianne Faithfull

You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage. – Chinonye J. Chidolue

Sometimes it’s better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible. – Karen Salmansohn

Sometimes it takes heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. – Mandy Hale

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could. – Gabrielle Zevin

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. – Shannon L. Alder

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed. – Sarah Waters

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest. – H.P. Lovecraft

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in. – Katherine Mansfield

You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you. – Jojo Moyes

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

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. – Robert Brault

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself. – Mandy Hale

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past. – Cameron Dokey

Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will. – Mandy Hale

That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. – Robyn Schneider

No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. – May Sarton

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle. – Robert Breault

Love cannot live where there is no trust. – Edith Hamilton

How can I let you be a priority in my life, when I’m still an option in your life? – Hussein Nishah

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself. – Dionne Warwick

Relationships are supposed to make you feel good. Relationships are not supposed to make you feel bad. – Laura Bowers

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. – Abraham Lincoln

Professionalism makes work relationships healthy, foolishness and dishonesty erodes them. – Ty Howard

We are responsible for our own relationships, their success, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire. – Sam Owen

I am a strong believer that a bad relationship must be brought to an end, no matter how.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

Sayings For Moving On From Relationships

The wrong person will give you less than what you’re worth but that doesn’t mean that you have to accept it. – Sonya Parker

It is better for someone to break your heart once by leaving your life, than for them to stay in your life and break your heart continually. – Terry Mark

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person. – Wayne Dyer

I think it is a bad relationship when you get blamed for the things that make you who you are.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. – Anthony Robbins

**Sayings For Moving On From Relationships**

When you get into a bad relationship the best thing you can do is get out of it as soon you can.

Relationships end, but they don’t end your life. – Steve Martin

When there is no trust at all between the two of you, then you do have a bad relationship then.

I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. – Woody Allen

There is no reason to believe that a bad relationship can be fixed, sometimes you have to let go.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does.

Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose. Rita Rudner

Love sometimes hurts when you’re not with the right person But, don’t give up loving.

Learn to walk away from those who cause harm to you. – Malika E Nura

Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship. – Anne Hathaway

The death of one relationship always start with the small arguments and then the suspicions.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. – Ernest Hemingway

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.

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us. – Sharon Salzberg

Sometimes you don’t get closure, you just move on. – Karen Salmansohn

There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances, it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience. – Anthon St. Maarten

There are people who break you down by just being them. They need not do anything. Dissociate. – Malebo Sephodi

Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer! – Israelmore Ayivor

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. – E.B. White

True friends don’t say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. – Flavia Weedn

Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. – Trey Parker

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you. – Kiera Cass

I have learned along my journey that letting go doesn’t mean loving less. – Alex Elle

At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.

Even if we can’t be together in the end, I’m glad that you were a part of my life.

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.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King Jr.

No one can save me except myself. – Susane Colasanti

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? – Leo Buscaglia

Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future. – Wayne L. Misner

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. – Dave Mustaine

Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free… your true self comes out. – Tina Turner

Sayings About Relationships Ending And Moving On

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. – Wayne Dyer

A man who does not leave his hut will bring nothing in. – West African Proverb

**Sayings About Relationships Ending And Moving On**

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. – Buddha

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? – Morrissey Mary Manin

I choose not to project my past onto my future. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but to move forward. – Fridtjof Nansen

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. – Louis L’Amour

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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

Life is about making the right decisions and moving on. – Josh Rayburn

Every exit is an entry somewhere. – Tom Stoppard

It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lost it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us. – Mimi Novic

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Ana’s Nin

Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Perhaps that is where our choice lies – in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning. – Elana K. Arnold

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. – Bruce Lee

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

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

One can begin so many things with a new person – even begin to be a better man. – George Eliot

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. – Alan Cohen

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. – Prince

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. – Plutarch

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Silence is true wisdom’s best reply. – Euripides

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit. What sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. – William Penn

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. – Elbert Hubbard

Work hard in silence, let your success make the noise. – Frank Ocean

Through the portals of silence, the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you. – Paramahansa Yogananda

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart. – Phyllis Mcginley

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls. – Mother Teresa

Your silence will not protect you. – Audre Lorde

“There’s a message in the way a person treats you. Just listen.”

“When it hurts to move on, just remember the pain you felt hanging on.”

“Pain will leave you, when you let go!”

“If they can leave you so easily, they were never really meant for you. Let them go.”

“Let go of the illusion that it could have been any different.”

“Once you stop chasing the wrong things, the right ones catch you.”

) “The person who doesn’t value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go.” – Robert Tew

Sad Ending Relationship Quotes And Sayings

“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.”

“Letting go is a process of releasing someone or something that you love because it no longer serve you or it’s no longer available to you.”

“If it is destroying you, then it is not love.”

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are part of your history. But not a part of your destiny.” — Steve Maraboli

“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; Letting Go is knowing that there’s a future.”

“Repeat after me: ‘My current situation is not my final destination.’”

“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.”

“I think it’s time I let you go. And that’s so hard to do because a part of me will be in love with you for the rest of my life. But the day dreaming, the running in place, it’s not healthy. I can’t do that anymore.”

“Sometimes we have to let go of what’s killing us, even if it’s killing us to let go.”

“The reason why we can’t let go someone is because deep inside we still have hope.”

“If it hurts too much to hold on then it’s time to let go.”

“Sometimes, you have to make big mistakes to figure out how to make things right, mistakes are painful but they’re the only way to find out the reality.”

“To heal a wound, you need to stop touching it.”

“Sometimes you have to forget how you feel and think of what you deserve.”

“Never make someone a priority, when all you are to them is an option.”

“Sometimes the best way to be happy is to learn to let go of things you tried hard to hold on to that are no longer good for you.”

“You can’t lose what you never had, you can’t keep what’s not yours and you can’t hold on to something that doesn’t want to stay.”

“One of the hardest things to do in life, is letting go of what you thought was real.”

“Sometimes letting go is the only option. Your heart doesn’t deserve that pain.”

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”

“Be with someone who brings out the best in you, not the stress in you.”

“Because in every relationship there comes a point when the damage is too much and no matter how good it once was, the memories can’t sustain you. You have to save yourself knowing all the while it hurts like hell, because you can’t keep giving someone everything if you get nothing in return.”

“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past.”

“Letting go does not mean you stop trying to force other to.” – Mandy hale

“Sometimes, the only reason why you won’t let go of what’s making you sad is because it was the only thing that made you happy.”

“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon

“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.” – Bill Cosby

“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” – Dan Brown

“You’re in a relationship to be happy, to smile, to laugh, and to make good memories. Not to be constantly upset, to feel hurt, and to cry.”

“There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.” – Jessica Hatchigan

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

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley

“If she is dumb enough to walk away, be smart enough to let her go.”

“In the end, only three things matter:How much you loved,How gently you lived,And how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” – Buddha

“There’s a difference between a boy who kinda likes you and a man who wants your soul next to his. Know the difference.”

“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

“Sometimes you have to make a decision that will hurt your heart but heal your soul.” – Trent Shelton

“You cannot heal in the same place where you got sick.” – William Goldman

“Let go of the shit that suffocates your soul.”

“One of the most difficult tasks in life is removing someone from your heart.”

“It sucks when you know that you need to let go, but you can’t, because you’re still waiting for the impossible to happen.”

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wrong people always teach you the right life lessons.”

“The lessons we learn from pain will always make us the strongest.”

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama

“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

To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clinging and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.” ― Jack Kornfield.