Quotations about

Letting go

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

—Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

Some things are hard to let go of.

—Veronica Roth in Allegiant

So many people enter and leave your life. Hundreds of thousands of people. You have to keep the door open so they can come in. But it also means you have to let them go.

—Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

—Taylor Negron

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

—Havelock Ellis

Sometimes you have to know when to let hope go.

—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Deity

I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.

—Erin Morgenstern in The Night Circus

I love you. And I love you enough to let you go, if I have to. If it's what will make you happy, I'm okay with that. Whatever you decide.

—Selena Kitt in Baumgartner Generations

Sometimes letting go and forgiving others and yourself is the only way to move forward in life.

—J.S. Cooper in The Other Side of Love

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

—Robert Green Ingersoll

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

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is.

—John Lennon

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

—Joanne Harris in Five Quarters of the Orange