Let Go Quotes

“Not all wars are worth fighting. Sometimes you just have to let it go.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“Sometimes things don't work out the way we hoped, despite our best intentions. And when they go pear-shaped, you have to let them. You can't keep holding on, trying to redo the past and stop the bad things from happening. They happened, and you can't change that. You can't keep holding on to the vision of the future you imagined you'd have, the way you thought things would turn out. You have to let the present be what it is---broken, flawed, painful, but real.”
― Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

“What do you learn from loving someone?
You learn to let go when it’s time.

Did you let go yet? Did you love him a little more? Keep loving, keep letting go. Don’t stop.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

“You know you’ve moved on when you find other people beautiful.
when you don’t avert your eyes but keep them steady
or when you stay the night, the last one at the party,
and you don’t feel sorry. or empty. or guilty
because whatever, where are you going anyway?”
― Charlotte Eriksson, He loved me some days. I'm sure he did: 99 essays on growth through loss

“Everything and everyone will be taken away from you. You will go away from everything and everyone. This is the process of Life. Trust the process.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“Our bodies and our minds are designed to bear weight, but that doesn’t mean we need to keep holding in everything we accumulate along the way.”
― Hania Khuri-Trapper, Rest & Return: Weekly Reminders to Pause, Reflect, and Just Be

“Moments like this are what we train for year-round. It’s why we spend so much time developing character traits like commitment, grit, optimism, and humility. It’s the reason we practice embracing adversity and learning to regard it as a competitive advantage. Events like this are the reason behind our all-consuming focus on the process—why we learn to control the things we can and let the rest go.”
― Ben Bergeron, Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes

“Anyway, I wanted to get rid of it all & start a new life in Tokyo with a clean slate as a brand-new person. Try out the new possibilities of a new me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

“xThe cause of most stress can be summed up by the word attachment. Self 1 gets so dependent upon things, situations, people and concepts within its experience that when change occurs or seems about to occur, it feels threatened. Freedom from stress does not necessarily involve giving up anything, but rather being able to let go of anything, when necessary, and know that one will still be all right. It comes from being more independent—not necessarily more solitary, but more reliant on one’s own inner resources for stability.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

“It wasn’t until I actually made the decision to let go of the plane and started falling away that I realized there was no turning back. At that instant, the fear was gone, vanished, defeated by pure excitement and exhilaration. I was stepping into the unknown. I had never felt as wonderful and alive as I did at that moment.”
― Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, Above All Else

“It’s way easier and more “comfortable” to stew in anger and resentment, for example, than to practice forgiveness. But the former will keep you mired in unwholesome thoughts and feelings, while the latter will open the door to true transformation and make you strong. “Anyone can hold a grudge,” Doe Zantamata wrote, “but it takes a person with character to forgive. When you forgive, you release yourself from a painful burden. Forgiveness doesn’t mean what happened was okay, and it doesn’t mean that person should still be welcome in your life. It just means that you have made peace with the pain, and are ready to let it go.”When we let go of unnecessary emotional baggage, we are, quite simply, freer on every level.”
― George Mumford, The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance

“Letting go of expectation allowed me to celebrate even the smallest victories, to be utterly in the winning moment and thankful for my current state.”
― Hillary Allen, Out and Back: A Runner's Story of Survival Against All Odds

“The cause of most stress can be summed up by the word attachment. Self 1 gets so dependent upon things, situations, people and concepts within its experience that when change occurs or seems about to occur, it feels threatened. Freedom from stress does not necessarily involve giving up anything, but rather being able to let go of anything, when necessary, and know that one will still be all right. It comes from being more independent—not necessarily more solitary, but more reliant on one’s own inner resources for stability.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Stress: Outsmart Life's Challenges and Fulfill Your Potential

“I’m like a ripe stool, and the world’s like a gigantic anus, and so we’re about to let go of each other.”
― Martin Luther

“While you're alive, you say you can't let go of anything. But if you die today, nothing will stop for you. Life will go on. Those who are dependent on you will find a replacement. Then why don't you let go of things while you're alive and live freely?”
― Shunya

“Letting go does not mean giving up on Life. It means giving in to Life. It means going with the flow. It is a prayerful state, of complete surrender, of trusting the process of Life.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“His key insight was that yearning, or wishing things were different than they are, is the root of all suffering, and that letting go of this desire is the secret to happiness.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life

“If you take a bigger perspective, letting them come and go, they don’t hold such power over you.”
― Joseph Parent, Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game

“In situations when you don’t know what to do, pray, trust the process of Life, surrender and let go. When you do this, you will be amazed at how masterfully you will be led by Life – to reach where you are meant to be!”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“What goes down always comes up and what comes up always goes down. Such is Life. Celebrate its suchness. And keep flowing with Life. Sometimes reaping rich dividends and sometimes feeling good you have either cushioned well for a loss or learning that you could have cushioned better. Enjoy the ride!”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“With adult children, let go, let go, let go! You let them be and you just be!”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“Freedom from stress does not necessarily involve giving up anything, but rather being able to let go of anything, when necessary, and know that one will still be all right. It comes from being more independent—not necessarily more solitary, but more reliant on one’s own inner resources for stability.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

“Today went down in history because we couldn't let go of the past.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Sometimes, you must let go, the sure way to gain new grounds.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“What you must let go, let go.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When I let it go;
joy of it stays forever ...”
― Ramesh Sood, Carnival of Thoughts: A Book of Haiku and Poems

“Freedom. The wind only answers the call of those that are carefree. You must let go of everything.”
― Ethan Avery

“That day, every time I threw something away, my heart and soul got heavier instead of becoming lighter.”
― Akshay Vasu, The Swords of Light and Darkness

“This is the story of how I learned, with God’s help, to ‘let go and let God’. I learned that the burden of my responsibilities was weighing me down and I learned that, instead of worrying and striving, practicing gratitude made life so much easier.”
― Kathryn Lee, Hope, Strength and Courage: With Stories in Medicine Training and the Atypical Sibling Rivalry

“It is perfectly okay if you don’t know how to solve a problem. Or if you don’t have the answers to all the questions that stare you in your face just now. Just because you are educated and have access to money you have always believed that you are in control of Life. But every once in a while, Life will throw a problem at you that you cannot solve. And that’s when you will realize that you are not in control of your Life. You will then understand that, all along, Life was – and is – in control. So, letting go and going with the flow of Life is not one of many options you have to live intelligently. It is the only way!”
― AVIS Viswanathan