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.

Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.

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.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?