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Quotes tagged ‘Don't Go Back’
You are hatching from the past.
There was nothing to do but keep moving forward and make the moments count.
I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.
Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
Change has to come for life to struggle forward.
My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.
Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.
She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.
When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.
I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant…
Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.
Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.
She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck You.
When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.