Moving On quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of goodbye, sad quotes, moving on, going.
Best moving on quotes
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: 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.
“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Variant: And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.
Moving On quotes
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.”
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 261
General sources
Variant: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
Variant: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Variant: You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f**k on.
This is actually a quotation http://books.google.com/books?id=FUIHmRHf8SUC&lpg=PA130&dq=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=%22not%20on%20fighting%20the%20old%20but%20on%20building%20the%20new%22&f=false from a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Peaceful_Warrior, by Dan Millman.
Misattributed
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes, it is letting go.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Shared on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MayaAngelou/posts/10150251846629796, July 4, 2011
“Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
Letter to his son Eduard (5 February 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), p. 367
1930s
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Variant: You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
“Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass… it's about learning to dance in the rain. ”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Variant: Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Source: Confucius: The Analects
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
As is often the case, this quote appears to be something Luxemburg could have said or written, but searches for a source have been unsuccessful. While Luxemburg often used metaphors of breaking or shattering chains, this, apparently, is not one of them. See: https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/reference-desk-unanswered-questions/
“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”
Variant: Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
Variant: You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. 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.
“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
Il y a assurément un autre monde, mais il est dans celui-ci...
Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, Gallimard, 1968.
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: 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.
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
“No matter where you go, there you are”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
“TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE”
Source: Revolution for the Hell of It (1968), p. 184.
“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
Source: Deception Point
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.
Paulo Coehlo”
Variant: If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
“There is no such thing in life as normal”
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Lauretta Bender / Quotes / 1954 Senate Subcommittee Hearings into Juvenile Delinquency, "Testimony of Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist, Belleveu hospital Newyork N.Y." http://www.thecomicbooks.com/bender.html
From songs
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. I: "Grief and Oblivion"
“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
Context: Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
“There is no time for grief; there never is.”
Source: The Red Dice
“Life is to be lived, not controlled.”
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
“Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.”
Source: Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
Variant: There is love in holding, and there is love in letting go.
Source: The Year of Pleasures
“Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.”
Source: The Samurai's Garden
“You have to believe in it to get it…”
Source: Heart of the Sea
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
Variant: When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.
Source: The Zahir
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
One of the most commonly quoted forms.
The Serenity Prayer (c. 1942)
Variant: Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
“I will never give up if you never give in.”
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment”
“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.”
"Prairie" (1918)
Source: Cornhuskers
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger”
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius”
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
“If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.”
Two By Two
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 26
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”
from "Elegy for Wonderland", by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959
“Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.”
New York Times, April 28, 1985; as quoted in A Speaker's Treasury of Quotations by Michael C. Thomsett and Linda Rose Thomsett (McFarland, 2009), p. 111 https://books.google.it/books?id=igYyBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA111.
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 80
“Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.”
"On Being in Love".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Context: Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once... No, we never sicken with love twice. Cupid spends no second arrow on the same heart.
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
“The opportunity of your life, it's you.”
Original: (it) L'occasione della tua vita, sei tu.
Source: prevale.net
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.”
Source: Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”
Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
“Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
“Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.”
Variant: A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Source: Salem Falls
Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac