Quotes About Moving On
Sometimes life doesn’t work out the way we expected it to. Things can change gradually over time, or change can happen overnight, leaving you stunned and in shock and wondering what to do next. It always takes time to recover, and there really is no easy way out. You just have to wait and let the feelings that need to come to the surface do so and slowly get back to normal.
Whether you have recently been dealt one of life’s many blows yourself, or you have a friend who needs comforting, here are some moving on quotes that hopefully can help (not really happy quotes perhaps, but encouraging and inspiring – if for no other reason but to see that you’re not alone, it happens to all of us):
“No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.”
Brendan Francis
“Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.”
Unknown
“By forgiving and choosing to move on, one takes the power back to morph it into positive energy.”
Eugenia Triputti
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
Sholem Asch
“When the door of happiness closes, another opens. But often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.”
Unknown
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To play it safe is not to play.”
Robert Altman
“Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter.”
Jeb Dickerson
“Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night’s potato?”
From Boston Common
“Oh, well, of course, everything looks bad if you remember it.”
Homer Simpson
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“The key to moving on is to let go of fears.”
Rosanne Cash
“The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.”
Chris Cobbs
“To be able to moving on, one has to learn to forgive not only the person (or people) who have done one wrong but also oneself.”
Unkown
“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
Cherokee Proverb
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.”
Victoria Holt
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
James Thurber
“Old times” never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better.”
George E. Woodberry
“Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.”
Dawson’s Creek
“When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.”
Unknown
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
“It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lost it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.”
Unknown
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
Babatunde Olatunji
“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”
Fulton Oursler
“Do not worry if you feel low; the sun has a sinking spell every night, but rises again all right the next morning.”
Unknown
“Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.”
Montaigne
“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
Euripides
“A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.”
Unknown
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
Les Brown
“Don’t let the past steal your present.”
Terri Guillemets
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
Carl Rogers
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
E.M. Forster
“We do not understand hope until confronted with doubts”
Unknown
“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.”
Dave Mustaine
“One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.”
Michael Cibenko
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
Jan Glidewell
“Letting go isn’t about giving up. It’s about accepting that there are things that cannot be.”
Unknown
“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. Rather it makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how wonderful it will be when the right one comes along.”
Javan
Dr. Seuss“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
March 26th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
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