By Lisa Davis
Putting the dark past behind or making the decision to let go of the relationships, friends or career that no longer serve you well may be a real act of courage. But it is the only way to heal emotional pain and move on to a new life stage. These moving on quotes will be a good inspiration for you to own your life and heal emotionally.
1. Wilder Poetry. “Letting go is hard but being free is beautiful.”
2. Eugenia Tripputi. “To be able to move on, one has to learn to forgive not only the person, or people, who have done one wrong but also oneself.”
3. Oprah Winfrey. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”
4. Alan Cohen. “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
5. Wayne L. Misner. “Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.”
6. Denis Waitley. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”
7. Steve Maraboli. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
8. Chris Hughton. “Part of the game is moving on. And you do.”
9. Lalah Delia. “The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”
10. Robyn Schneider. “That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.”
11. Steve Maraboli. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
12. Anonymous. “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change.”
13. Joel Osteen. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
14. Tracee Ellis Ross. “I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.”
15. Jonathan Lockwood Huie. “I choose not to project my past onto my future.”
16. Amelie Chance. “If you’ve fallen down, today is the day you can get back up and try again.”
17. Criss Jami. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
18. Iyanla Vanzant. “We must learn to let things flow just like breath, and life will do the rest.”
19. Yoko Ono. “Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”
20. Arthur Ashe. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
21. Phil McGraw. “It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.”
22. Marta Mrotek. “You really don’t have to burn any bridges to let go… You don’t have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.”
23. Jane Linfoot. “Our scars make us who we are. Wear them proudly, and move forward.”
24. Brené Brown. “Owning your story is the bravest thing you’ll ever do.”
25. Leo Buscaglia. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
26. Jonathan Lockwood Huie. “Let every day be the first day of the rest of your life.”
27. Byrd Baggett. “Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.”
28. Carlos Santana. “If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.”
29. Johnny Cash. “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.”
30. Helen Rowland. “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”
31. Mary Manin Morrissey. “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.”
32. Gina Carey. “A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.”
33. Mimi Novic. “Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.”
34. Rachel Hartman. “You can’t walk away without also walking towards.”
35. Robert Frost. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
36. Jojo Moyes. “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
37. Martin Luther King Jr. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
38. Jan Glidewell. “You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
39. April Mae Monterrosa. “Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.”
40. C.S. Lewis. “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
41. Amit Ray. “If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”
42. Mandy Hale. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
43. Scott Stabile. “The pain of letting go will be eclipsed by the relief of moving on.”
44. Nicholas Sparks. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
45. Lyndon B. Johnson. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
46. Sam Madison. “Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.”
47. Daphne Rose Kingma. “Moving on is not forgetting — moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it.”
48. J.P. Morgan. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.”
49. Steve Jobs. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
50. Louis L’Amour. “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”
Your self worth and your future happiness largely depend on your decision to let go of the past and recover your broken self, even if it requires some painful effort. Don’t let the fear to let go and start all over make you hold on to what makes you feel miserable or stay where you no longer belong.
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