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Moving On Quotes

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.

– Carrie Brownstein

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

– Anne Roiphe

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

– Albert Camus

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.

– Alanis Morissette

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

– Carlos Santana

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.

– Ashley Greene

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as the head writer the first year we started it.

– Chevy Chase

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.

– Brian Eno

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

– Carl Sandburg

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

– Mike Shinoda

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.

– Dennis Hastert

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop – is to pause – and when the caravan goes away, that’s when this stuff comes.

– David Remnick

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

– Nicole Richie

I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

– Caleb Johnson

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

– Denis Waitley

Forget the past.

– Nelson Mandela

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

– Drew Carey

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

– George Allen, Sr.

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.

– Danica Patrick

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

– Gene Tierney

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.

– Dave Pelzer

I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it’s all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

– Natalie Massenet

Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.

– Christiaan Barnard

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

– Gerry Cooney

In the world of opinion writing, there’s something called the ‘to be sure’ paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point.

– Meghan Daum

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.

– Gwen Ifill

It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

– Ernie Harwell

My genuine belief is that if we can get through the eurozone crisis from a political point of view, we’ve got a lot of engines that can drive our economy, that will restore confidence and get us moving on.

– Enda Kenny

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.

– David Brainerd

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on – because the reader certainly will.

– Mark Billingham

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