Moving-on Quotes

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

You have to be even better as a coach than as a player in dropping what happened, good or bad, and moving on to the next one, because there is always a new matchup to prepare for.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

I've been around the league for a while. I know the business of the league. Some stuff, like my mom said, you let it roll off your back like water on a duck's back. You keep moving on.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

I have made many decisions that I probably shouldn't have made, but life is about making mistakes, learning and moving on.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and say, 'I've conquered that; now I'm moving on.' It's something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.

The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

Forget the past.

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.