Quotes About Moving On
I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward. | Fridtjof Nansen
My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive–I’ll find love again. | Paulo Coelho
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. | Milan Kundera
When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow,” said Buddha. | Deepak Chopra
“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter. | J.R.R. Tolkien
When you love someone, it’s never over,’ Dr. Carruthers replied gently. ‘You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart. | Elizabeth Chandler
You can’t save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can’t save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine. | Laurell K. Hamilton
Move, hunt, kill. Like lather, rinse, and repeat. | Kendare Blake
Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there. | Haruki Murakami
I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand. | Veronica Roth
Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else. | Steve Maraboli
Life moves on and so should we. | Spencer Johnson
Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on. | David Levithan
Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. | Sun Tzu
Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal. | Cheryl Strayed
But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on. | Jay Asher
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. | William Blake
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. | Katharine Hepburn
Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life. | Ramon Bautista
Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. | Douglas Adams
Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left. | Brian Andreas
You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all. | Ally Condie
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine. | E.M. Forster
Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give… it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward. | Sylvester Stallone
People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won’t happen for me. I won’t survive you, Eva. | Sylvia Day
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life. | Osho
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. | Archimedes
That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it. | Miranda July
Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours. When you finally recognize that truth then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others. From this point you will finally be free. | Shannon L. Alder
Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business. | J.K. Rowling
I’m not running away, I’m moving on. | Irvine Welsh
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future. | Greg Behrendt
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. | Frida Kahlo
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. | Shannon L. Alder
It’s funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough. | Neal Shusterman
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To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest. | H.P. Lovecraft
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. | Martin Luther King Jr.
A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later. | Khaled Hosseini
Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on. | Hiromu Arakawa
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. | Katherine Mansfield
We all make mistakes but one has to move on. | Jeffrey Archer
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. | Mitch Albom
I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things. | Natsume Sōseki
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe. | Winston S. Churchill
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. | William Faulkner
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon. | Paulo Coelho
You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. | Oprah Winfrey
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