Sayings and quotes about moving on in life, love and letting go.

Here are some of the best quotes about moving on. Enjoy!

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of they prefer suffering that is familiar. – Thich Nhat Hanh.

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. – Ann Landers.

Letting go isn’t about giving up. It’s about accepting that there are things that cannot be. –  Unknown

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu.

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

The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal. – Astrid Alauda

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. – Michael Cibenko

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. – Alexander Chase

Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Khalil Gibran

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Being strong sometimes means being able to let go. – Anonymous

I gather strength from life’s storms. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some think it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go. – Sylvia Robinson.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken

I don’t want to lose you but I don’t want to use you just to have someone by my side. –  Patty Smyth

The pain experienced during a breakup is as individual as the trillions of people who go through it. – Tigress Luv.

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs. – Dick Raymond

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.– Gerald Jampolsky

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. – Les Brown

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on. –  Stephen Sondheim

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings. — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There’s no need to miss someone from your past. There’s a reason they didn’t make it to your future. –  Unknown

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. – W. Somerset Maugham

Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear. –  Pat Riley

Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness. –  Tina Dayton

Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go. –  Len Santos

By letting go, you will empower yourself. You are letting go of the weights that are pulling you down from seeing new possibilities. –  Vanessa Vandy

It is always possible to pull yourself together. Now is the first day of the rest of your life. –  Vanessa Vandy

Quietly forgiving and moving on is a gift to God – and yourself. –  Unknown

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard –  Dave Mustaine

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go. – Oprah Winfrey.

Breathe. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. – Oprah Winfrey.

Let every day be the first day of the rest of your life, but especially let today be a new beginning. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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