Quotes about Moving On

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

"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."

"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."

"Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love."

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

"Recovery begins from the darkest moment."

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

"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."

"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."

"Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears."

"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."

"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."

"Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it."