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50 Quotes To Ease Your Conflicted Heart And Give You The Strength To Leave The Past Behind

It's not easy to know where you're supposed to go, who you're destined to become, or whom you're meant to give your heart to. Life leaves us with so many choices, so many decisions to make, and so many paralyzing fears. Letting go is an art, a painfu
Marisa Donnelly
July 9, 2016
“We can't really affect the circumstances on what does happen to us, but we can affect how we respond to it. And I thought that it was important for us to be able to forgive and to move on. Because if we devolve with it, you can imagine the anger and hurt that you continue to have.”
— Vivian Stringer, Standing Tall: A Memoir Of Tragedy And Triumph
Tagged: Finding Strength, Strong, Pushing Forward, Moving Forward, forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgiving, Letting Go Of Anger
“You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in. You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in.”
— Rania Naim, You’re Allowed To Leave
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“The truth about moving on is that it just doesn’t look the same to all of us. For some people, it means falling madly in love with someone else. For others it means building an independent life in which their happiness is only their own. There are a thousand different ways to push our lives forwards into new stages and phases and no two ever look exactly the same.

At the end of the day, ‘moving on’ is a simple measure of one thing – when you’re happy again without your ex.”
— Heidi Priebe, Moving On Doesn’t Always Mean Finding A New Relationship
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“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.”
— Ann Landers, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!:: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“In the end, our paths are rarely straight and narrow, and they were never meant to be anyway. And if all we do in each one is learn a lesson, or meet a friend, or know ourselves better, or do something kind for someone, we have gained much more than we have lost. But first, first we must have the courage to let go of the things that are not meant for us.”
— Kovie Biakolo, You Have To Let Go Of The Things That Aren’t Meant For You
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“You are broken, and it’s okay to be broken right now. You can’t rush your healing, and that’s fine. But you need to know that this feeling won’t last. You need to know that just because you’re hurting doesn’t mean you can’t get back up again, doesn’t mean you’re weak.”
— Marisa Donnelly, You Won’t Always Miss Him, I Promise
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“There’s a trick to the ‘graceful exit.’ It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.”
— Ellen Goodman, Ellen Goodman's last column: looking backward, looking forward
Tagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Leaving, Saying Goodbye
“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Holding On, Letting Go, Release
“I wish

Not to wish anymore.
For what is fleeting with its worth
Is not worthy any more
Than what I could be appreciating
Now and working for.
What is here now, in front of me
Not what I cannot see.

As for you, I will let it be. ”
— L.Y.S.S., via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Art Of Letting Go, Leaving The Past Behind
“I’m still broken, I know, but I don’t let that define me anymore.”
— passionatelypsycho, via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Brokenness, Leaving The Past Behind
“With you or without you I have so much living left to do.”
— 10000 miles away, via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Without You, Living, Living Left To Do
“It's hard to let go of anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”
— Madeline L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Lightt
Tagged: Letting Go, Let Go, Learning To Let Go
“You can’t love someone into loving you.”
— reminisceandremember, via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Love, Unrequited Love
“We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.”
— Yasmin Mogahed, via Facebook
Tagged: Letting Go, Holding On, Let Go
“Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.”
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Tagged: Letting Go, Letting Things Be, Moving On
“Soon, those who hurt us will fade out of existence. And we will be left with nothing but memories, scars and broken promises. We can either let these go and start anew or thread on familiar water and get drowned over and over again.”
— The Carcoleptic, via Tumblr
Tagged: Letting Go, Let Go, Starting Anew, Begin again
“When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.”
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Tagged: Letting Go, Letting Things Be, Moving On
“Healing may not be so much about getting better as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.”
— Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom
Tagged: Healing, Letting Go, Becoming, On Becomig
“Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.”
— Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
Tagged: Letting Go, Letting Things Be, Moving On