Moving Forward Quotes

If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?

~ Shannon L. Alder

The choices that you make in life will determine the person that you become. Life is all about choices.

~ Benjamin A. Mckinney

How Long We Should Wait?

~ Behnam Rajabpoor

Our lives are a journey. As we move forward, we will not only figuratively experience the geography of life: the exhilaration of high mountains, the tranquility of calm meadows, the isolation of treacherous canyons, but we will also experience the seasons of life: the hope of spring, the abundance of summer, the harvest of autumn, and yes, the darkness and depression of winter.

~ Seth Adam Smith

One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey. And, to your utter amazement, you will see how your experiences with depression, dark and painful as they were, only added to the overall beauty of your life.

~ Seth Adam Smith

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

~ Seth Adam Smith

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive.

~ Germany Kent

Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.

~ Tim Fargo

If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to walk with Him that I have learned to walk forward.

~ Anasazi Foundation

I have seen the light in the wilderness and I must follow it.

~ Seth Adam Smith

The changes we make in life often happen when we have a degree of certainty. However, the pain of our past failures and the fears of our peers often fuel our uncertainty. This inability to predict the future is why people find themselves stuck and unable to move forward. They don't want to feel the emotions of failure. They prefer to talk themselves into settling for an okay life, rather than the life they really want. However, failure is a matter of perspective! Is it not failure when you don't take a chance on the one thing you need? There is no happiness in regret, staying safe or settling for anything less than what you can have through action.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person.

~ Asa Don Brown

He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories. But unlike ephemeral digital images that can be sorted and deleted, we can’t erase the past. We have to learn to live with all the images that are stored in love's archive, memories tagged good and bad. No Photoshopping. Accept the negative before moving forward.

~ Shannon Mullen

Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past.

~ Asa Don Brown

It's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

~ Jason Versey

Beloved, it's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

~ Jason Versey

Beloved,it's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

~ Jason Versey

... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

~ John Green

If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.

~ Piper Kerman

You can’t get back the time in the past. You can’t change it. You can only make sure to learn and move forward.

~ J.b. Mcgee

Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward.

~ Yvonne Pierre

instead of mourning, instead of a moment of silence or a hateful, islamophobic message, how about today we make the world a little brighter?be kinder. be a little gentler, with yourself and others. take more pictures. tell more jokes. be a better human.today is a lot more than a tragedy. today is a birthday. a day of suicide awareness. a wedding. a birth. a new job. today is a kiss and someone on a tarred over warehouse roof whispering about the day the earth stood still and the day it began spinning again.be kind. just be kind. it's time we took this day back for the wild ones, for the fiery eyes, for the happy and the brave and the new. no more mourning. let it just be a sunday.

~ Taylor Rhodes

However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

~ Mark Doty

Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.

~ Lily King

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

A walk is a walk and must be taken; breakfast and dinner come when they are due. The routines of the living are inviolable, no hiatus called on account of misery, spiritual crisis, or awful weather.

~ Mark Doty

purple threaded evening. a torn goddess laying on the roof. milk sky. lavender hued moan against hot asphalt. the thickness of evening presses into your throat. polaroids taped to the ceiling. ivy pouring out of the cracks in the wall. i found my courage buried beneath molding books and forgot to lock the door behind me. the old house never forgets. opened my mouth and a dandelion fell out. reached behind my wisdom teeth and found sopping wet seeds. pulled all of my teeth out just to say i could. he drowned himself in a pill bottle and the orange really brought out his demise. lay me down on a bed of ground spices. there’s a song there, i know it. amethyst geode eyes. cracked open. no one saw it coming. october never loved you. the moon still doesn’t understand that.

~ Taylor Rhodes

There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion.

~ Neil Gaiman

You are heading towards the top if you raise the bar of your standards inch by inch each hour! There is no quick way to success, it comes in installments. Every day's activity is a minor contribution to a heavy pay of success. Don't waste the day!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Go forward and fulfil your dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I firmly believe that life is made up of moments. Some are significant, and some are disposable. Some sit at the edge of your awareness and taunt you when you're trying to sleep, and others fade into the background noise of life. But every moment, no matter how small, has the potential to create or destroy you.

~ Cecily White

If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.

~ Alex Day

Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.

~ Tim Fargo

You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward — believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You are moving forward one way or another.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We're all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn't value it.

~ Turcois Ominek