“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go. If you’ve been hurt until it breaks your soul into pieces, your perspective in life will definitely change, and no one and nothing in this world could ever hurt you again.” ~ Mareez Reyes

I’ve learned so much from holding on, but even more from letting go. And today I would like to share with you 23 powerful lesson in letting go, lessons that will most probably inspire you to let go of anything that no longer serves you grows you or makes you happy so that you can start living the wonderful and meaningful life you deserve to live.

1. By letting it go it all gets done.

“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.” ~ Lao Tzu

2. Letting go frees you from unnecessary stress.

“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.” ~ Melody Beattie

3. Letting go is a sign of great strength.

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

4. Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore.

“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

“Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold—that’s ego. Love liberates. It doesn’t bind. Love says, ‘I love you. I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re across town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But that’s not possible now, so I love you. Go.’” ~ Dr. Maya Angelou

“Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.” ~ Marianne Williamson

5. You don’t lose the things you let go of, you lose the things you cling on to.

“You can only lose what you cling to.” ~ Buddha

“Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God’s law.” ~ Mary Manin Morrissey

6. Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

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

7. You can’t move forward looking backward.

“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

“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

8. Forgiveness is letting go of the past.

“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.” ~ Gerald Jampolsky

“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”~ Ephesians 4:31-32

9. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.

“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.

10. You can’t receive new gifts if your hands are still full of yesterdays junk.

“Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.” ~ Bryant H. McGill

11. Let go. Tie no weights to your ankle.

“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 C.

12. When you let go of who you are, you become what you might be.

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

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~ Lao Tzu

13. Letting go gives you freedom and happiness. 

“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh.

“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

14. Letting go is knowing that there’s a future.

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

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

15. The pain of letting go is less than the pain of missing your destiny.

“The pain of letting is less than the pain of missing your destiny.” ~ Joel Osteen

16. When you let go of the life you’ve planned, you open ourselves to the life that is waiting for you.

“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

17. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

“In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally, you arrive at non-action? When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. It can’t be gained by interfering.” ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

18. The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” –Steve Maraboli

19. When you let go of your history, you start to live your destiny.

“When you hold on to your history you do so at the expense of your destiny.” ~ T. D. Jakes

20. There is a time to hold on, and a time to let go.

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” ~  Gloria Naylor

21. Letting go is one of the things that matter the most.

“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?”

22. Out of a fear of the unknown, most people have a hard time letting go of their suffering. 

“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

“All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we are attached to things which will be taken away by the time of death, or even perhaps before. You may be very much attached to money but you can go bankrupt tomorrow. You may be very much attached to your power and position, your presidency, your prime ministership, but they are like soap bubbles. Today they are here, tomorrow not even a trace will be left.” ~ Osho

23. To have life, and to have its pleasure, you must at the same time let go of it.

“Pleasure in its fullness, cannot be experienced when one is grasping it. I knew a little girl to whom someone gave a bunny rabbit. She was so delighted with the bunny rabbit and so afraid of losing it, that taking it home in the car, she squeezed it to death with love. And lots of parents do that to their children. And lots of spouses do it to each other. They hold on too hard, and so take the life out of this transient, beautifully fragile thing that life is… To have it, to have life, and to have its pleasure, you must at the same time let go of it.” ~ Alan Watts

Why do you think so many people struggle with letting go of ideas, things, relationships and experiences that hold them back in life, causing them to feel a lot of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness? I would really love to know what are your thoughts on this. You can share your comment in the comment section below 🙂

~love, Luminita💫

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