70 Moving On Quotes to Heal the Pain from The Past

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.

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.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

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

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.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

It is only through labor and painful effort by grim energy and resolute courage that we move on to better things.

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.

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.

Forget the past.

Moving on is a simple thing what it leaves behind is hard.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all this too shall pass.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

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.

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.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness whereas if you go conservative you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Man maintains his balance poise and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit I’ll break up with someone on purpose.

The heart will break but broken live on.

I’ve been heartbroken. I’ve broken hearts. That’s part of life and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

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

I don’t live in the past at all I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

The moving finger writes and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit can cancel half a line of it.

One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

I’m pretty horrible at relationships and haven’t been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on – returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy – is what I know that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

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.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name – and moving on.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.

Any time you end a relationship and everyone has ended plenty in their life it’s always a tough thing and hard to get over.

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

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

What’s that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started but to know it for the first time. I’m able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed now I’m older. Thank God for growing up.

If you’ve got to my age you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great big normal life and you’re like ‘What’s wrong with me?’

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

Who can’t relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

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.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests I forget to worry.

When you start using senses you’ve neglected your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

I’ve always believed that if you don’t stay moving they will throw dirt on you.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don’t want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

I mean don’t forget the earth’s about five thousand million years old at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

The Marines was a fresh start – that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

Like anyone who goes to college you’re leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything and you’re starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Suffering isn’t ennobling recovery is.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

I can tell you one thing Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago or a month ago or a year ago. It’s just moving on with its efforts.

As far as friendships go things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I’m like ‘Oh my goodness gracious – that’s so insane.’ I also have friends who are just doing their own thing which is cool.

I’m moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn’t clear. If people think you’re leaving a show after all these years you might be retiring. So I understand where they’re coming from but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I’m just moving on right now.

So I won an Oscar. It’s amazing. I’ve got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That’s it moving on.

It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I’m moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

In the theater it’s about taking time in a musical segment a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

With more than 67 percent of the Nation’s freight moving on highways economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment in terms of people moving on to do other things because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we’ve developed.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me that editing process feels like a form of play like a puzzle that needs solving and it’s one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

If it were the Clinton people they’d be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security which the needle is not moving on.

Kubrick’s vision seemed to be that humans are doomed whereas Clarke’s is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Life goes on and I’m moving on to the next thing but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.