Letting Go Of The Past Quotes

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”
― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go.”
― Joe Bolton, The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990

“When your trust has been betrayed, the only thing to do is live, learn and let go. Otherwise the betrayal done by another will turn into hate for them. But they will not feel this hate, it will only hurt you more, growing bigger and darker. So, live, learn and let go. By living, it means they did not hurt you so deep that you can not move forward. Learn, learn to not trust this person again, and to make more of a sound judgement in the future. Letting go doesn’t mean forgetting. It means that you have let go of the pain it caused. And by not forgetting, you will learn and move forward from the betrayal of the past.”
― S.L. Vaden

“Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive.”
― Germany Kent

“But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.”
― Soheir Khashoggi, Nadia's Song

“Even a spineless anthropod sheds what's no longer useful and leaves it behind them. Are you not greater than they?”
― Jason Versey

“Consider that the path you were once on was meant to end when it did. Obsessing about plans lost or changed is a barrier to holistic wealth because it keeps you stuck in the past and unable to move forward.”
― Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness

“There is a big difference in being left and being forgotten.”
― Keep Breathing (Series)

“The only things we never forget
are the ones we never possessed.”
― Laura Chouette

“Guilt is the worst demon to bear, and it will keep you in never-ending turmoil.
Learn to let it go!”
― Zane Baker

“You're not going to live in victory if you hold on to baggage from yesterday. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life.”
― Germany Kent

“But all of that is an hour from now. Now, on the other side of midnight, we do not know yet what is coming. So be it. So let it be.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“My point is, sometimes letting go of things we care about can cause greater things to come our way. Think of Job in the Bible. Satan used him as his plaything and took all the man had. But Job, he kept his faith. He loved God, knew true love, and didn't let the worldly things sway him. And God blessed him for it, with twice as much as he had before.”
― Allyson Kennedy, The Fall

“যে জানালা আজও বন্ধ আমার,
এবারে তা যেন খুলতে পারি।
যে রয়েছে শুয়ে ধূলিশয্যায়
যেন হাতে ধরে তুলতে পারি।
পিছনে যা আছে পিছনেই থাক্,
যেন পিছুডাক ভুলতে পারি।”
― Nirendranath Chakraborty, নীরেন্দ্রনাথ চক্রবর্তীর শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা

“Failure rarely happens in an instant. It usually happens slowly, bit by bit. It is important to acknowledge and admit failure before things go out of hand, so that one can make amends to contain the damage.”
― Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster

“Crossing the prairie he had learned something that he knew to be a contradiction: that a constant sound—like the slithering of wind-blown grass—can become its own silence. Here at the edge of the mountain ranges another lesson became clear: this dichotomous land had made some claim upon his soul.

The plains seemed to go on forever, the gently rolling land seeming to mirror the endless sky. The vastness of it all gave him his first seed of hope. Here, in this spacious country where a man was constantly dwarfed by the grandeur of his surroundings, he might learn to burn up his past and let the sparks scatter to the stars. Under this broad Western sky there seemed to be more directions, more possibilities . . . not just about what to do with his life . . . but also what kind of man to be.”
― Mark Warren, Indigo Heaven

“She wrote his name on a piece of paper
and lit it with a match.
The letters curled
as they turned dark and misshapen
until she didn’t recognize them.
They were figments of something
that she had done in her past, lost
into some other form of existence.”
― Eric Overby, Hourglass in Grace

“Letting you go was easy. The memory. Not so much.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“By letting go of the past, focusing on the present, and creating a brighter future, we can live a life full of happiness, fulfillment, and success.”
― Sam Izad, Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas

“Sometimes it’s in the letting go that we find ourselves and the path we were meant to be on all along.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“I took one step forward but she took three steps back. 'It's all in the past. We should move on,' she said. She dramatically gestured at my whole body. 'This...whatever this is, it isn't love. We're acting right now on behalf of our past selves. This isn't love.”
― Emily Grace, River Of Sorrows

“Everything inside me has shifted. I'm stronger. Not only am I able to let go, I'm happy to let go. I'm focused on the future.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“She'd learned a lot about letting go that past year. About not holding on to the past and embracing what fate had in store. About taking pride in a hard day's work, but also taking time to rest and find peace in the quiet moments of the day.
Most of all, she'd learned the importance of spending time with those she loved. She now understood just how precious time was, and that it wasn't promised.”
― Farrah Rochon, Almost There

“Feeling addicted to an ex makes letting them go excruciatingly hard even when you rationally want to move on.”
― Dr. Cortney Warren

“There comes a point at which you have to let go and forgive. You can start your prayer with, 'Help me to forgive because I don't want to forgive. I feel entitled to be angry even though the anger is killing me, not them. And no one really cares that I'm angry. It's destroying my life, not theirs. I want to punish someone, so I punish my kids or I punish other innocent people who have never harmed me because it is my way of punishing them. So I really don't want to forgive because then I think all my hurt will be forgotten and that feels so unfair. But what is fair? No one's hurt is fair. I just think that justice should revolve around me. So, help me to forgive, one person at a time, beginning with _______.' That's your beginning. You take it from there until you have emptied your dungeon. Whenever you add new prisoners, you will have to revisit your dungeon.”
― Caroline Myss, Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

“I'm not here to protect you anymore. It's your life to live and I'm letting go.”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen, How Dad Found Himself in the Padded Room: A Bipolar Father's Gift For The World

“~They played a role in your story, and it's okay if their chapter still echoes within you. Their meaning in your life is valid, even if it's just a memory now. It's okay if that person still occupies a space in your thoughts. The understanding that not every relationship is destined to last a lifetime is a powerful mantra, freeing you from the shackles of past uncertainties.”
― Carson Anekeya