Moving On Quotes

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.

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

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

Life is like a circle and you have to know when to move on. Success and failure are a part and parcel of it.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

He may be out of my life physically, but he’ll always be a part of me. I can’t let him go even if I tried. Alex took a piece of my heart, but that doesn’t mean my life has to be on hold. I can’t keep running after ghosts.

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

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

If you fail doing one thing, then learn the lesson and move on and find something else.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

I don't do a lot of looking back; I tend to look ahead.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'