Top 100 Letting Go Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Mind Quotes

2. “Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes

3. “It’s good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Sufism Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Life Is Short Quotes

4. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

— Laozi

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Taoism Quotes, Quotes About Reality

5. “If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.”

— Byron Katie

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Real Quotes

6. “To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.”

— Jack Kornfield

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

7. “Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.”

— Ajahn Chah

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Meditation Quotes

8. “Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”

— Jack Kornfield

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Focus On Yourself Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

9. “The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.”

— Pema Chödrön

10. “Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Music Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

11. “By letting go it all gets done.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Short Positive Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

12. “If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Love Is Quotes

13. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Life Philosophy Quotes, Faith Quotes, Quotes About Believing

14. “Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Quotes About Balance

15. “You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

16. “Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Peace Quotes

17. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Focus On Yourself Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes

18. “Let it be.”

— Paul McCartney

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Peace Quotes, Artist Quotes

19. “Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Helping Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Healing Quotes

20. “If you love something, let it go. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”

— Cecelia Ahern

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

21. “Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you.”

— Miguel Ruiz

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Quotes About People

22. “So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Practice Quotes

23. “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Wellness Quotes

24. “I accept myself unconditionally right now.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Personality Quotes, Practice Quotes

25. “Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.”

— Mooji

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes

26. “Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.”

— George Lucas

27. “You only know you love her when you let her go.”

— Passenger

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Love You Quotes, Couple Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

28. “I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

29. “No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Deep Quotes, Freedom Quotes

30. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Faith Quotes, Peace Quotes, Suffering Quotes

31. “You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.”

— Kody Keplinger

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Personality Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Perspective Quotes

32. “Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes

33. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Simplicity Quotes

34. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Inner Peace Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

35. “We are reminded that anger doesn’t solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.”

— Thomas S. Monson

Also featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Morality Quotes, Peace Quotes

36. “Try something different. Surrender.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Sufism Quotes, Different Quotes

37. “In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don’t worry. Be happy.”

— Bobby McFerrin

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Happy Quotes, Feel Better Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

38. “Some people are going to leave, but that’s not the end of your story. That’s the end of their part in your story.”

— Faraaz Kazi

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Different Quotes, Romance Quotes

39. “Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it’s accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Healing Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

40. “You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Smart Quotes

41. “Don’t look back! For a bright future is ahead of you.”

— Joel Brown

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Graduation Quotes, Vision Quotes

42. “I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.”

— Gabrielle Bernstein

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Universe Quotes, Miracle Quotes, Flow Quotes

43. “When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.”

— T.D. Jakes

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Healing Quotes, Past Quotes, Hurt Quotes

44. “Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.”

— Miguel Ruiz

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Loss Quotes

45. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Loss Quotes

46. “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

— Jack Kornfield

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Peace of Mind Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Peace Quotes

47. “If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.”

— Tony Gaskins

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Serenity Quotes

48. “I let go of all fear and doubt, and life becomes simple and easy for me.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Overcoming Fear Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Healing Quotes

49. “Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Moving Quotes

50. “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes