Letting go is incredibly difficult. No matter if we cling to worries about the future, or if we keep replaying the mistakes of the past again and again in our mind—it can be quite painful when you have difficulties to move on. The desperate attempt to hold on to the things that were familiar to us limits our capability to experience happiness and joy in the present moment. Life is all about continuous change. This means to us that no matter how hard we try to keep things as they are, we will sooner or later be confronted with relentless changes, whether we like it or not. However, as soon as we cease our attempts to own and control the environment we are living in, we open up ourselves to new possibilities.This is the reason why it is so important to be able to let go: moving on helps us to let happiness and joy in.Scientists at the University of St. Andrews highlighted the importance of being able to let go in their research about forgiveness. They showed that those participants who were willing to forgive their transgressor were more likely to be able to forget what happened. For this very reason, it’s so important to be able to let go and forgive so that we can move on with our life.The following quotes about letting go and moving forward will guide you through this difficult time. They will lighten up your mood and help you to get inspired to discover the new opportunities that come with changes.

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. Letting Go Quotes Quotes tagged as 'letting-go' Showing 1-30 of 1,117 “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, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience.

• “Sometimes it’s hard to know when to let go. It can be so personallike the autumn leaf still hanging on the limb in the late October sky, Mother Nature sends a gust of wind to nudge it’s stem loose. For us we must listen for our own nudge from the inner soul. We must knowwe will feel, it’s ok to let it be.
• Letting Go Quotes Quotes tagged as 'letting-go' Showing 1-30 of 1,117 “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, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience.
• Here are some best quotes which will help you to figure out where the letting go part is required. Letting Go Quotes and Sayings Do not waste your time thinking about what went wrong, but instead devote all your strength to improve tomorrow.

The Best Quotes about Letting Go

I hope you enjoyed the quotes in the above.

But what do we learn from this? Can we draw a conclusion after reading all these quotes?

What is the quintessence of all these quotes?

It is really difficult to summarize all the quotes named in the above. But let us try to condense the wisdom of the fantastic quotes in the above.

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List of 40 Quotes About Letting Go And Moving Forward:

#1 Deborah Reber

“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.”

#2 Terry Pratchett

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

# 3 Shannon L. Age

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”

#4 Ann Landers

“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.”

#5 Beyonce Knowles

“Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye”

#6 Jeffrey McDaniel

“I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.”

# 7 Baltasar Gracián

“The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.”

#8 Emily Giffin

“Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past”

#9 Robert Downey Jr.

”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.”

#10 Don Miguel Ruiz

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”

#11 Mark Halperin

“What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there’s nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it’s then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.”

# 12 Alyson Noel

”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.”

#13 Gay Hendrix

“We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don’t have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.”

#14 Roy T. Bennett

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”

#15 Michael Bassey Johnson

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

#16 Denis Waitley

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

#17 Henry Ford

”If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

# 18 Jenny Han

“I suppose you can’t hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.”

# 19 Tao Te Ching

”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.”

# 20 Rebecca Solnit

“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”

# 21 Leo F. Buscaglia

“We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.”

# 22 Gerald G. Jampolsky

“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.”

#23 Buddha

”You can only lose what you cling to.”

# 24 Fridtjof Nansen

“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward”

#25 Walt Disney

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

#26 Kate DiCamillo

“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.”

# 27 Dalai Lama

”Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.”

#28 Nicole Sobon

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

#29 Herman Hesse

”Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

#30 C. JoyBell C.

“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.”

# 31 Daphne Rose Kingma

”Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.”

# 32 Haruki Murakami

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

# 33 Paulo Coelho

“Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.”

#34 Deepak Chopra

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

#35 C. JoyBell C.

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“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.”

# 36 Hal Tipper

“Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering.”

#37 Catherine Ponder

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”

#38 Rachel Wolchin

“Things are as they are—we suffer because we imagined different.”

#39 Steve Maraboli

“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.”

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# 40 Amit Ray

Quotes Letting Go Someone You Love

”If you want to fly in the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”