Quotes about Moving on

Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges; it doesn't make any sense to do it.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

We need to be honest with ourselves. We need a place where we can sit down, reflect, and mourn. However, we must be careful not to mourn over the past longer than necessary. After the funeral, there is always a burial. The burial separates the survivor from the deceased, and it is as far as we can go. So you must come to a place of separation and decide to live on.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

It is painful to break the sad links to the past

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

Learn how to grieve fractured relationships, and then learn how to let them go. Don't let disappointment morph into self-doubt and self-flagellation. Just because you wish something wasn't a certain way doesn't mean it's your fault that it's not.

I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.