Quotes about Moving on

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your DESTINY.

Until one day I realized that regret from the past was keeping me from living well in the present. And it was robbing me of a future.

God had told the survivors of Sodom and Gomorrah not to look back after they'd been rescued from death and destruction, and if Jo's family continued to gaze into the past, they were going to become stuck in place like pillars of salt, too.

It is necessary for you not to let pain rewrite your memories. And it's absolutely necessary not to let pain ruin your future.

Forgiveness is the weapon. Our choices moving forward are the battlefield. Moving on is the journey.

At some point we must stop: 1. Replaying what happened over and over. 2. Taking what was actually terrible in the past and tricking ourselves into thinking it was better than it was. 3. Imagining the ways things should be so much that we can't acknowledge what is.

No need to bend under the weight of past mistakes. That kind of bending breaks us.

It's necessary for you to not let pain rewrite your memories, and it's absolutely necessary not to let pain ruin your future.

I've felt the heavy weight of regret and I don't want to return there.

What happened yesterday can't be changed, but it can be forgiven. That's your miracle in the mess. The voices of condemnation, shame, and rejection can come at you, but they don't have to reside in you. That's your miracle in the mess.

No, that relationship didn't work out. But that doesn't mean you'll never find love. It also doesn't mean you aren't capable, likable, and lovely.