Alan Cohen Quotes

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

I can't stay stuck in the past.

It's tough for me to move on from places, even though I realize that it's not only necessary but very important to be able to do so.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

It's definitely tough to get up and walk away from something you have been a part of for so long. But it's part of life.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

At some point, we all have to let go.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps put a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herseld. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on." "Perhaps." ........ I look out the window. The jungle is everywhere. I look back at her. "Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

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

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!