Sayings About Relationships Letting Go

#1. Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

Meghan O'Rourke

#2. Letting go of the belief that we're powerless to help relieve our own suffering enhances our ability not only to heal but also to genuinely love and receive the love of others.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

Mary E. DeMuth

#4. Note the lessons a broken heart has taught you but don't ever alter the love you can give. Don't let a broken heart hinder your kind of love.

Aline Alzime

#5. She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she'd never thought of, to show her new points of view.

Anna Godbersen

#6. Sometimes moving on is the only way to move on.

Colleen Hoover

#7. I now let go of worn out things, worn out conditions, and worn out relationships. Divine order is now established and maintained in me and in my world.

Catherine Ponder

#8. Sometimes,' he starts, 'the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

Rebecca Serle

#9. Sometimes you don't get closure, you just move on.

Karen Salmansohn

#10. If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. Rest. Let the letting
go. It is better to heal
than not to have loved at all.

Jerrold Yam

#12. To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.

Vironika Tugaleva

#13. 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

#14. Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

Mandy Hale

#15. Sometimes you have to fight for the past and sometimes you have to let go.

Shannon Mullen

#16. Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. Yeah, letting go - even just musically, aside from emotionally - I find that quite challenging. Knowing the right time for letting go of my album, for instance, was a really big challenge. Knowing when to put the red flags up and say, "It's done ... " And also, emotionally, with relationships.

Kimbra

#18. You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

Joyce Rachelle

#19. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

Erica Goros

#21. Your heart's strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don't look back.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#23. The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don't see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.

Mandy Hale

#24. Now,
Because I put you in the past,
My life is like:
A path paved,
Fit for your feet.
Now other women walk on it;
And not one of them fits.
Walking crooked, on a path that's straight.
I watch them.
They don't even have your gait.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#25. [Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again.
[Mark] What does 'c-word' mean?
[Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don't feel it. Not letting go even when you can't find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end.

Pat Cadigan

#26. Things change, time changes. People change, life changes. Time changes things, life changes people.

Aline Alzime

#27. I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

Loretta Ellsworth

#28. A broken heart is probably tougher the second time around but just remember those pieces will come together again. The hurt and pain will fade. You will then remember how strong you are. You will thank a broken heart someday, remember that.

Aline Alzime

#29. Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay, they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.

Arti Honrao

#30. I fought for you, I fought for us
I fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,
Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,
Worlds apart in an instant, for what once was is now gone
So tell me what your secret is to letting go like you did.

Tanzy Sayadi

#31. Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.

Kellie Elmore

#32. I think love is something you figure out later on in life, and you have to make a lot of mistakes to figure out what love is, which is why we all have shitty, tumultuous relationships when we're younger, and it's harder to let go,

Alexandra Daddario

#33. Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.

Toni Sorenson

#34. We're all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn't value it.

Turcois Ominek

#35. Cam knew that if she succeeded, it was going to destroy her, but she could worry about that later. All she had to do at the moment was cut her own heart out without letting the wound show too much; she'd have plenty of time to bleed after Alex had gone.

Jo Victor

#36. What's the difference? You ask me
The difference is, a smile touches my lips
When I remember both the memory of you entering my life
And the memory of you leaving my life

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#37. Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

Mandy Hale

#38. A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!

Shannon L. Alder

#39. We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.

Sharon Salzberg

#40. When we remember our identity in Christ, it changes the way we see these relationships because we no longer base our worth on the approval of others but the approval we have already received from our Father through the work of His son.

Amy E. Spiegel

#41. The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

Sharon Salzberg

#42. A scar on the heart will heal.
Let your love remain pure as if it was never cut in the first place.

Aline Alzime

#43. We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.

Mandy Hale

#44. Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?

Sarah Addison Allen

#45. If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go?

Shannon L. Alder

#46. To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

#47. You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them ... but still move on without them.

Mandy Hale

#48. In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.

Shannon L. Alder

#49. Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever.

Vironika Tugaleva