Moving On Quotes

“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”

Gail Sheehy

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

Kahlil Gibran

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

Kahlil Gibran

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

Ernest Hemingway

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.”

Washington Irving

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”

Victor Hugo

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

Helen Keller

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”

Marcel Proust

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

C.S. Lewis (A Grief Observed)

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

Attributed to Haruki Murakami

“'Hope' is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

Emily Dickinson

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

Desmond Tutu

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Hope is a waking dream.”

Attributed to Aristotle

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

Anne Frank

“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it.”

Barack Obama

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

“Once you choose hope, anything's possible.”

Christopher Reeve

“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way.”

Oliver Goldsmith

“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.”

The Bible (Psalm 34:18)

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

The Bible (Jeremiah 29:11)

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

The Bible (Isaiah 40:31)