10 Quotes to Help You Let Go When You Just Don't Want To
Letting go can feel like leaving something or someone precious behind. Sometimes, though, it’s for the better. Here are quotes that may inspire you to let go when you don’t think you can:
1. “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.”
– C. Joybell C.
2. “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
3. “We have to unclasp our palms and let go of every alternate reality where we’re happier, stronger, brighter because of all the things we did differently. Those universes do not exist. But ours does. And it’s okay here, if we open our eyes up and let it be.”
– Heidi Priebe
4. “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”
– Nicole Sobon
5. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
– Mandy Hale
6. “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.”
– Turcois Ominek
7. “Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye”
– Beyoncé Knowles
8. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
– Havelock Ellis
9. “When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.”
– Shannon L. Alder
10. “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