20 Quotes On 'Letting Go' (To Help You Move On From The Past)
Letting go of the past, anger, resentment, or fear will open you to so much possibility.
weheartit Imagine holding on to something with both of your hands and someone comes to you and has this amazing gift to offer. You look at it wrapped up so nicely; you know it will be something great, but you have to reach for it and your hands are already full.
You are unable to take the gift. You choose to hold on and not let go, which limits you from grabbing what is right in front of you. It may be exactly what you are looking for but you will never know if you don’t learn how to let go of what no longer serves you.
You may not be letting go because you are afraid that the unknown is worse. You many not be letting go because you think you aren’t good enough to have more in your life. You many not be letting go because you feel you are not worthy of good in your life.
All these beliefs are your B.S. (Belief Symptom) getting in the way. They are all false. You are worthy, deserving and more than enough for greatness in your life.
Here are 20 letting go quotes to remind you of how you can do it now and find happiness in your life:
1. "Once you become fearless, life become limitless." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Be fearless. There are only two real fears you are born with and they are loud noises and falling, any other fear is made up by you. Let go of your fears. Have the courage to take risks.
The quality of life and excitement is in the direct proportion to with the amount of uncertainty you can handle.
2. "In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Letting go of what no longer serves you is the easiest way to change. Nothing changes until you decide you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Take the first step and the second will follow. The path unknown is easier than you may have imagined.
3. "Life is too short to spend time with people who drain the happiness out of you." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Spend time with the people who make you happy. They are not the people who stand by your side when you’re at your best, but the ones who stand beside you when you’re not.
4. "Release the past." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Stay present, for you cannot change what happened but you can design what’s next. Letting go of the past leaves you open for the present.
5. "Erase the old tapes in your head and create new ones."— Lisa Lieberman-Wang
It isn’t enough to stop the negative thinking. You need to replace it with something more empowering. Erase the old tapes in your head and create new ones now.
6. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." — George Eliot
No matter how far you’ve gone on the wrong road, you can still turn around. It is never too late to start living the way you want.
Let go of the beliefs that hold you back and take your first step into your future now.
7. "Holding onto anger or frustration for things you can’t control or change is not a good decision." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Feeling bad and doing nothing about it is a waste of your energy.
Letting go of the anger or frustration and things you can’t control will free you up to receive the good that life has to offer.
8. "We live in a world of unlimited possibilities. Yet, we fixate on a few things and don’t let them go." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
When we fixate on a few thing and don’t let them go we miss out on the unlimited possibilities that life has to offer. You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
Move forward and focus on the now.
9. "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." — Oscar Wilde
Let go of who you think you need to be and just be who you actually are. Be true to yourself and you will always attract the right people in your life.
10. "How you feel matters! Whether you’re feeling sad, anxious, stressed or depressed. Break Old Patterns, Form New Habits." — FINE to FAB
Our habits can break us or mend us. So break the bad ones and form new ones. Let go of the sadness, anxiety, stress, and depression and replace them with happiness, gratitude, and joy.
11. "Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up." — Jenette Stanley
The one who falls and gets up is much stronger than the one who never fell.
In life, we will experience failures but staying down and never getting up is a choice.
12. "If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today’s successes will be few." — Anonymous
Your history can’t be undone. Stop dwelling on the past. Your future has yet to be written, make the most of what’s going to happen instead of worrying about what you can’t change. Letting go of yesterday’s failures opens the possibilities for today’s success.
13. "Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away your joy. Life is too short to put up with the fools." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life. Stay away from drama. Let go of the people who don’t value you for who you are, they don’t deserve you.
14. "Worrying will not strip tomorrow of its burdens; it will strip today of its joy." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Most of the things we worry never happen, and they certainly do not happen the way we thought they would. So, laugh more and worry less.
15. "You can choose what you hold on to and what you don’t." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
You can choose what you hold on to and what you don’t. Letting go of what doesn’t fit will free you up for more possibilities.
16. "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." — Buddha
Sometimes holding on does more damage than letting go. There are things in life we can’t control and we just have to let it go.
17. "Let go of the things that no longer serve you, and put your problems in the past where they belong." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
You cannot change what you refuse to confront. Identify your fears and deal with it. When we eliminate fears and past stories, we can experience more happiness.
18. "If others rent space in your head for FREE, it’s only because you allowed it." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Are you still lamenting on what happened in the past? Do you always say things about yourself because of what happened? Stop blaming yourself. You can be your greatest savior or enemy.
Choose to be your savior and let go of what others tell you.
19. "Hate only hurts the person carrying it." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
20. "So many of us live in our own palace of pain, convinced that we are alone in our struggle, but the fact is…we’re not alone." — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
You may say a lot of things to yourself when we are sad and alone. Don’t believe any of the negative stories you tell yourself and know that you are not alone.
Lisa Lieberman-Wang is a relationship expert and creator of the neuroscience Neuro Associative Programming (NAP). You can find more helpful tips to loving yourself, letting go and improving your self-esteem and your life at Fine To Fab, or by calling 1-844-FINEtoFAB. Pick up a copy of her book, Fine to Fab, here!