Letting go can seem very hard but it can also be very liberating as well. Even though holding on isn't so bad, letting go isn't bad either. Here are 10 quotes from famous people on letting go.

1. Theodore Roosevelt: “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

2. Jessica Hatchigan: “There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.”

3. Jan Glidewell: “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”

4. Ralph Marston: “Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.”

5. Denis Waitley: “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energy moving forward together towards an answer.”

6. J. K. Rowling: “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

7. Raymond Lindquist: “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”

8. Erich Fromm: “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

9. Alexander Graham Bell: “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

10. Fridtjof Nansen: “I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.”

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