Moving On Quotes

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.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

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!

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

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

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

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.

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.

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

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?'

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.