43 Quotes About Accepting The Truth and Moving On

Having to deal with moving on can be difficult when you feel like you are stuck. These quotes about accepting the truth and moving on offer the perfect encouragement you need to find a place where you belong.

“A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”

“A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky.”

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”

“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.”

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

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”

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

“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

“Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.”

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

“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.”

“I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.”

“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.”

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”

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

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.”

“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”

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

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

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”

“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”

“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.”

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

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

“My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.”

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you.”

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”

“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”

“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.”

“There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”

“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.”

“We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there’s always something beautiful that you can find.”

“We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea.”

“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.”

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”

Sometimes the best thing you can do to move on is to let go of the past.