Can't Let Go Quotes:

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

- Leslie Marmon Silko

topic: Letting Go, Lost Things, Can't Let Go

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

source: Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.58, Celestial Arts

topic: Inspirational, Letting Go, Goodbye, Forgive Yourself, Inner Happiness

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Love, Life, Moving On, Forward In Life, Inspirational Moving Forward

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

- Jeffrey McDaniel

topic: Letting Go, Heartbroken, Winter, Time To Move On, Past Relationship

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Moving On, Letting Go, Let It Go, Moving Forward In Life, Letting Things Go

You can only lose what you cling to.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Moving On, Letting Go, Buddhist, Inspirational Moving On, Can't Let Go

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Moving On, Letting Go, Pain, Just Keep Moving, Just Keep Moving On

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

- Guy Finley

topic: Single, Letting Go, Understanding, Life Moves On, Letting Things Go

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Moving On, Moving Forward, Focus, Dwell On The Past, Just Keep Moving

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

- Barack Obama

topic: Mean, Doubt, Have Faith, Forward In Life, Inspirational Divorce

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness, Forgive Yourself, Inspirational Forgiveness

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

- Michael Connelly

topic: Past, Just Keep Moving, Just Keep Moving On, Inspirational Moving On, Break Your Heart

Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Moving On, Letting Go, Spiritual, Life Moves On, Rules Of Life

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont 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

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Moving On, Best Of Me, Forward In Life

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

topic: Inspirational, Letting Go, Courage, Time To Move On, Inspirational Divorce

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

- Havelock Ellis

source: Havelock Ellis (1973). “Affirmations”, Milford House Publishing Company

topic: Life, Moving On, Letting Go, Life Going On, Just Living Life

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

- Guy Finley

topic: Inspirational, Break Up, Letting Go, Inspirational Moving On, Moving Forward In Life

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

- Natalie Imbruglia

source: Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

topic: Reality, Insanity, Humorous Birthday, Hurting You, Gold Digger

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

- Drake

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Importunate, Life's Too Short

Winning isn't the end of the world

- David Pleat

topic: Winning, World, End Of The World, Inspirational Moving On, Inspiring Cancer

What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.

- Mark Halperin

topic: Letting Go, Pride, Darkness, Letting Things Go, Can't Let Go

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

- Emily Giffin

source: Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.181, St. Martin's Press

topic: Letting Go, Past, Love Relationship, Time To Move On, Moving On In Life

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Life, Letting Go, Marvelous Things, Shackles

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.33, Canongate Books

topic: Letting Go, Art, Loss, Letting Things Go, Can't Let Go

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

- Bonnie McFarlane

topic: Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart, Live In The Now, Life Opportunity

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

- Shinjo Ito

source: Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.94

topic: Moving On, Letting Go, Ignorance, Letting Go Of Anger, Can't Let Go

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

- Gail Tsukiyama

source: Gail Tsukiyama (2008). “The Samurai's Garden: A Novel”, p.130, Macmillan

topic: Letting Go, Past, Sometimes, Can't Let Go

No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right back into reality that, "Hey man, whatever you're dealing with, if it's heavy on your heart and head, you're gonna have to let that go, because there, some people are dealing with unavoidable situations that they can't let go." And then they eventually let those go, so, I mean, that's helpful.

- Chuck D

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

topic: Letting Go, Mean, Heart, Can't Let Go

I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.

- Ozzy Osbourne

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Letting Go, Long, Rehab, Can't Let Go

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Letting Go, Moving, People, Can't Let Go

Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Letting Go, Wrestling, Blue, Can't Let Go

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

- Mariah Carey

topic: Letting Go, Dream, Ambition, Can't Let Go

Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be a demon that just ruins your present and your future because you can’t let go of the past.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

source: "Laurie Halse Anderson Thinks Adults Should Be Reading More YA". Interview with Krystie Lee Yandoli, www.buzzfeed.com.

topic: Letting Go, Memories, Cutting, Can't Let Go

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.

- Kate Elliott

source: Kate Elliott (2009). “Traitors' Gate”, p.877, Macmillan

topic: Letting Go, Pride, Vanity, Can't Let Go

What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on? You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can't let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Letting Go, Feelings, Mind, Can't Let Go, Thoughts And Feelings

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

- Michael Patrick King

topic: Letting Go, Writing, Mean, Can't Let Go, Relatability

If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

- Terry Brooks

topic: Letting Go, Sight, Done, Can't Let Go

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

- Ginni Rometty

source: "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

topic: Letting Go, Moving On Love, Letting Things Go, Love And Letting Go, Can't Let Go

Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Letting Go, Eye, Heart, Closed Eyes, Can't Let Go

Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

- Lauren DeStefano

topic: Letting Go, Fall, People, Can't Let Go

Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, would you be willing to acknowledge it as a lie? Even if you feel you can't let go of it right this moment, would you lift it before Him-perhaps literally lifting your fisted hand as a symbol-and confess it as an idol? God does not condemn you. He calls you.

- Beth Moore

source: Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender”, p.69, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Letting Go, Lying, Hands, Gripping, Can't Let Go

I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven. I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Letting Go, Hurt, Prayer, Can't Let Go, Heart Hurts

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

- Simon Sinek

source: "Live For The Future: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

topic: Letting Go, Want, Kind, Can't Let Go

I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.

- Rowan Atkinson

source: "Fears of a clown" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2003.

topic: Letting Go, Trying, Quality, Can't Let Go

Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.

- Mariah Carey

source: Song: Can't Let Go, Album: Emotions, 1991

topic: Letting Go, Dream, Fall, Falling For You, Can't Let Go

Sport that consumed me for over two decades . . . is now gone. Now it's just me. No pressure, no expectations, no need to be fast, good, strong or to even improve. Yet I can't let go of this idea that I always need to be more than I am. And it is eating me alive.

- Clara Hughes

topic: Sports, Letting Go, Strong, Can't Let Go, No Pressure

He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Letting Go, Peace, Hate, Can't Let Go

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

- Kirk Gibson

topic: Letting Go, Emotional, Frustrated, Can't Let Go

The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.

- Jackson Browne

source: Song: For America, 1986

topic: Letting Go, Sweet, Peace, Land Of The Free, Can't Let Go