Moving On Quotes

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

I don't believe in yesterday.

Sometimes you just gotta let sh-t go and say 'to hell with it' and move on.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up...." "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror and seeing myself twenty years ago.

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.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.

Time will break all of the old habits and create new ones for you, and in the process, you will try to handle this immense pain with dignity (because you're that kind of girl). You actually will have to move on and you actually will be fine and that's when he may actually miss how incredible and special you are.

Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.

Don't cry over spilled milk

When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday ended last night.' It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past, it's done, and today is a new day.

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

Don't worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

Don't regret what's happened.If it's in the past, LET IT GO.Don't even remember it!

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed

Once a relationship is done, it's done. You can't do that back and forth thing.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on.

I've never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.

As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden.

There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

When love is not accepted move on;when love is not appreciated walk away;hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

The past is the past. Don't let it kill you.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

Never regret your past. You have to move on and learn from it.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.