“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the pro…”— Alice Walker, amazon.comTagged: Change, Growth, Personality, Growing Up, Self-improvement
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, strength, Starting Over, Trauma, Grief
“There’s a trick to the ‘graceful exit.’ It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit l…”— Ellen Goodman, seattletimes.comTagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Leaving, Saying Goodbye
“I read the last paragraph of my favorite book. I remind myself that some things I love end. And that’s okay.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Endings, Acceptance, Moving On, Love
“There's one thing I want to say so I'll be brave You were what I wanted I gave what I gave I'm not sorry I met you I'm not sorry it's over I'm not sorry, there's nothing to say.”— Stars, youtube.comTagged: Girl Who Cares Too Much, Love, Relationships, Moving On
“You wrote down all these things to say goodbye to, but so many of them are good things. Why not just say goodbye to the bad things? Say goodbye to all the times you felt lost, to all the times it was a ‘no’ instead of a ‘yes,’ to all the scrapes as and bruises, to all the heartache. Say goodbye to e…”— Lily Aldrin, amazon.comTagged: HIMYM, Goodbyes, Hellos, Starting Over, Moving On
“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Heartache, Sadness, Starting Over, Moving On
“You often do not know what's best for your life. Predicting your future does not make it more guaranteed to happy. It just closes you off. It gets you attached to an idea that you only want to be reality because you're attached to it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: The future, Happiness, Predicting The Future, Change, Being Open
“The little voice that's telling you the story of your life, has to let go of the old chapters to genuinely write new ones.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, Life Story, Moving On, Moving Forward
“There are moments which mark your life. Moments when you realize nothing will ever be the same and time is divided into two parts, before this, and after this. Sometimes you can feel such a moment coming. That’s the test, or so I tell myself. I tell myself that at times like that, strong people keep…”— John Hobbes, imdb.comTagged: Moments, Life, Change, Trauma, strength
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Desire, Moving On, Moving Forward, Grief
“There comes a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.”— Tennessee Williams, goodreads.comTagged: Change, Leaving, Moving On, Moving Forward, Timing
“'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, very gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.comTagged: Life, Beginnings, Endings
“It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn't. If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. If they don’t come back, you sleep in the middle of the bed, learn how to make enough coffee for…”— Caitlyn Siehl, mixcloud.comTagged: Love, Endings, Change, Poetry
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Leaving, Saying Goodbye, goodbye, Endings, Ending
“Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Beginnings, Change, Endings
“We begin where we end, it has always been this way.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, instagram.comTagged: Love, Beginnings, Endings, Breaking Up, Getting Back Together
“Do you know there's a halfway world between each ending and each new beginning? It's called the hurting time, Jean Perdu. It's a bog; it's where your dreams and worries and forgotten plans gather. Your steps are heavier during that time. Don't underestimate that transition, Jeanno, between farewell…”— Nine George, barnesandnoble.comTagged: Starting Over, Patience, Goodbyes, Hellos, Endings
“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.comTagged: Endings, Starting Over, New Beginnings, Sad, Pain
“This is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories begin.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Endings, Beginnings, Pain, Starting Over, Letting Go