Quotes about moving-on

Katherine Mansfield -

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.

Ned Vizzini - It's Kind of a Funny Story

I'm done with those regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Steve Maraboli -

Moving on is not about forgetting the past it’s about learning from it. Find the message in the mess…Cry. Forgive. Learn. That’s moving on.

Brian Ruckley - Fall of Thanes

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart it is memory that makes it our ruin.

Stephen King - Duma Key

If I kept saying it if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

Gayle Forman - Where She Went

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now it's frozen shut.

Eric Butterworth -

Don't go through life grow through life.

Stefanos Livos - A Life In A Moment

Never look back you may only find what you left or let you go.

Graham Greene - England Made Me

He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

Nikki Rowe -

You can't go back and I think that's the point of all to grow and grow until you don't want to anymore.

Kemi Sogunle -

Plants die off when their roots have no water to sustain them. May your tears feed the roots of love in your heart and bring healing to your soul. May God grant you the strength to move on, knowing there's so much ahead of you.

Shannon L. Alder -

A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

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

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy - it might be time to release that friendship back to God and trust that it is not where you belong.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

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

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

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

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships.

Kendal Rob -

When your bright future, becomes a dull regret of the past, take a deep breath and move on.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

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 - and a Dash of Sass

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

If you’ve been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, isn’t it time to move on to a new destination? Don’t waste a lot of time stressing the “could have’s” – because if it should have, it would have!

Lois Lowry - A Summer to Die

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Tilicia Haridat -

They say what doesn't kill u makes u stronger.. but truth is sometimes it does kill u, it kills a part of u then it makes u stronger.

Pawan Mishra - Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

Depression is a reality with everyone. What’s important is the ability to move on.

Ryan Galloway - Biome

But when you’re a kid, it isn’t chaos. It’s just a heartbeat. Your house isn’t floating through space, it sits on the ground. Once you get old enough you start to see that color is just paint and doors are just wood. Then, at some point, that feeling of home vanishes entirely. And… that’s what I fear. That nothing will ever make me feel like I’m safe again. That once you leave home, you never get it back.

Joan Didion -

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of him in the water.

Jordan Beem -

Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.

David Reeves - In My Opinion

Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change.

Bella Andre - Reckless In Love

So I ask you, can you walk a mile? Every day, rain or shine, pain or gain, because you know you have to just to stay alive, just to breathe. Can you walk that mile?

Darien Cox - Victim of Love

Sometimes, in order to achieve our goals, we have to change ourselves. Sometimes we have to change ourselves just to survive. We might worry that we’re becoming an entirely different person. But this is often what’s required to move on to the place we want to be.If the goal is passion, the kind of passion that leads to love, you can pretty much guarantee that the journey is going to change you. But the one thing that never changes is the heart. And since the heart wants what the damn heart wants

Cameron Dokey - The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.

Ricky Maye - Barefoot Christianity

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me.

Shannon L. Alder -

There will be times in your life when you will have to stand alone in your pain and choke back all the injustice done to you. Letting go will be the hardest thing you have ever had to do because it means losing something you wish you didn't have to lose--the person that you care for. However, to be authentic--one person, it requires standing for truth as you know it to be, instead of having your dignity destroyed by another. It is a fire you have to walk through, in order to truly live. Sometime

Nikki Rowe -

I could have loved him with everything I had but he wasn't prepared for the depth i provided ~ had I been a woman of weakness I would have stayed, but he lost the chance when he said I wasn't enough that day.

Assegid Habtewold - The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

If your focus is on your failures, limitations, & fears, you've one sure destination. You'll get drowned. If not now, at the end of the day!

Sade Andria Zabala - War Songs

Do not settle for people who do not appreciate you, who do not know how lucky they are. Remember it is a privilege to be loved by you or even just to be touched by you. And the warmth of another body does not define your worth.

Shannon L. Alder -

When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Chloe Neill - Biting Cold

The world isn’t perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn’t apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it’s about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn’t perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

Alexandria Hampton -

I lost myself in the burden of trying to be your savior.

Flavia Weedn - To Take Away the Hurt: Insights into Healing

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

Charlotte Eriksson -

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.

Maureen Brady - Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse

As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having.

Fridtjof Nansen -

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward

Adhish Mazumder -

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

Holly Bourne - How Hard Can Love Be?

Maybe there in a set amount of crying your body needs to deal with any trauma. There’s a certain water-level of tears you need to shed until you can find acceptance or move on or whatever. And, if you don’t cry them out, they just catch up with you.

Sade Andria Zabala - War Songs

I said I love youwhen what I meant to say was"I’m afraid of being alone."I said I need youwhen what I meant to say was"I need to learn how to love myself.

Daisy Whitney -

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

Mr. Pessimist -

I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver

Taylor Rhodes - Sixteenth Notes: The Breaking of the Rose-Colored Glasses

Moving on should be a required high school classbecause Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.

Nadège Richards - 5 Miles

This is a story about survival.Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life.The things left unsaid...

kandi dougherty -

This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.

Aanchal Negi -

Time passes by, memory staysTorturing silently, rest of our days... Sigh!

Faraaz Kazi -

Life goes on... with or without you.

Shannon L. Alder -

The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat of the darkness, a cold ellipsis, punctuating years gone by. Arising unchained.No glorious hymn, just the steady beat of the illusion of time. We heal or we carry forward the weight of our wounds... To believe otherwise is the mendacity of desperation. Arising honestly. The miles behind are littered with the weight of nostalgia, but too many miles lay ahead us to carry the

Habeeb Akande -

Living in the past kills your future.

Brooke Bida -

I want something that is nothing like the past.

Melody Carstairs -

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.

Charlotte Eriksson -

I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don’t know quite yet but I can’t wait to, and that is the start of everything.

Gena Showalter - Beauty Awakened

What I've learned over the years is that people shouldn't be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up," she said. "You have to forgive yourself and move one.

M. Spio - A Song for Carmine

I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.

Justin David Nevins -

A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about it is what leaves a shadow. The only way to erase that shadow is to shed light on it. If that is not possible, moving on to somewhere brighter is always an option.

Holly Lynn Payne - DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

Holly Lynn Payne - DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

...purification was the point of such pain.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness is liberation. Forgiveness is a choice. If you forgive and forget you are free but, if you keep it, you shall always have it and it shall always rule and direct your heart, mind, body and spirit.

Jennifer Gracen - More Than You Know

You have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.

Joyce Rachelle -

Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Forgiveness is a revolving door positioned in your path.  You must step through it to move on, but it takes both timing and choice to escape walking circles inside.

Michael Richard Stosic - Thirty-Nine Days

Still hurting so much today from what my prior Pastor and 19church board did to me last year, and I really want to get past that. I want and need to forgive them, to move on with my life and look forward, forget the past.

Karen Salmansohn -

Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again.

Richelle Mead - Bloodlines

I managed to ask a question that had been burning inside me. “Do you still love her? Rose?” Along with not knowing what it felt like to be in love, I also didn’t know how long it took to recover from love.Adrian’s smile faded. His gaze turned inward. “Yes. No. It’s hard to get over someone like that. She had a huge effect on me, both good and bad. That’s hard to move past. I try not to think about her much in terms of love and hate. Mostly I’m trying to get on with my life. With mixed results, u

Jojo Moyes - After You

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.

April Mae Monterrosa -

When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.

Ramona Ausubel - A Guide to Being Born: Stories

Petra, people tell me that I will 'move on' and I can't believe it. But if it ever does happen, and I forget to feel this pressing absence of you, if I make it through a meaningless party and don't remember to hate everyone for their peaceful lives until the morning, please know that I am already sorry. I am going to try to be brave like you asked me to, but I don't have any idea yet what that means. Is it braver to allow the sadness of your leaving to spread into each of my bones until it is as

Olivia Laing - The Trip to Echo Spring

At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing their best. At some point, you have to gather yourself up, and go onward into your life.

Dane Hatchell - Resurrection X

Why is it so important for me to forgive that son-of-a-bitch? I’m not the one at fault here. It shouldn’t be about me. He’s the one that did wrong. Screw his feelings. He should feel like he’s hated for what he did.” Lisa added another used tissue to the growing pile on the table.Lyn warmly smiled. “Forgiving Byron isn’t for his sake, it’s for yours. The block in your life’s road can only be removed if you forgive him for what he did. If you don’t, you’ll just keep bumping into that block again

Karen Todd Scarpulla - Walking Toward the Light: A Journey in Forgiveness and Death

It is easy to say the word forgiveness but the challenge is to live the word forgiveness.

Rosamund Lupton - Sister

It makes the other one more precious and also not enough. We have to try to fill not only our own boots but other people's too - yours, Leo's, Dad's. We have to expand at the moment we feel the most shrunk.

Lisa Schroeder - Chasing Brooklyn

See that's exactly why I don't want a dog." "Why?" "Because it'll just die." "Everybody dies, Brooklyn." Like that makes it okay or something.

Taylor Jenkins Reid - One True Loves

Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.

Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

Jojo Moyes - After You

moving on means we have to protect ourselves.

Andrea Cremer - Invisibility

Maxwell Arbus was the reason Saul lost an eye?" "Yes," Millie answers stiffly. "But that was a long time ago. Saul has moved on. So have I." Whatever checks I'd held on my emotions shatter. "Moved on?!" Whirling around, I storm at Millie, waving my arms like a maniacal marionette. "I don't care if it was so long ago we could only get with a TARDIS! There is no moving on because it's happening right now!

Lang Leav - Lullabies

Here are the things I want for you -I want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in your presence.I want you to know how happy you once made me and though you really did hurt me, in the end, I was better for it. I don't know if what we had was love, but if it wasn't, I hope to never fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.I want you to remember my lips beneath your fingers and how you told me things you ne

Angelica Hopes - Music of a Soul

Shine in any season of your life!Head on with confidence in your life’s pilgrim!In deep faith, countless hope and unconditional love blessed by the Almighty.Newness of each rising day, bringing forth colourful sunsets.Enkindle your soul once more with courage, joy and love,flowing in a river of awakening & sharing:with a heart who once knew that hurt, pain, loss…means to SHINE!

mary esselman -

Be glad that once you did experience that magic. It's part of who you are now, and you're richer for it.

Jodi Picoult - The Tenth Circle

How do you do it?""Do what?""All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like ... like none if it mattered."Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the car over. Then he reached across the seat and brushed his thumb over her cheek; until then, she hadn't been aware she was crying. "Trix," he sighed, "it mattered.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.

Nanette Mathews -

Forgiveness for ourselves and other is one of the main elements in growth. It allows us to free ourselves of the issues that are holding us down.

Rainbow Rowell - Eleanor & Park

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said.He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

Daisy Whitney - The Mockingbirds

And we're all good, everything is forgiven between Beethoven and me because this is the part of me that hasn't changed. In this monent I'm not defined by the other things, the things that happened to me, the things I didn't choose. This is the part of me that defines me for all time, for always. The thing I choose completely.

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