“Love, which we are traveling through at such an astonishing speed, entire galaxies racing past, universes, it is as if we are watching time itself drift into the cosmos, like a spinning wall of images already gone.”— Dean Rader, narrativemagazine.com
“But even in the dark, time would go on, bold in its black cloak, no shade, no shadow, only the onward motion of movement, which is what time, if it exists at all, really is”— Dean Rader, narrativemagazine.com
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is…”— Mary Manin Morrissey, amazon.com
“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”— Steve Chandler, amazon.com
“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don’t let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.”— Osho, osho.com
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”— Abraham Maslow, facebook.com
“You don’t need someone else to forgive you. YOU need to forgive you.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.”— Joan Didion, theparisreview.org
“You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no lon…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphys…”— Aberjhani, amazon.com
“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.com
“If your life is missing something you cannot place back into it, restructure. You will get nowhere dismantling the pieces with nothing to take their place.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“What would be too good to believe if someone were to sit down and tell you what's coming next in your life?”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“When you have something more important to work toward, the obsession with little, made-up problems will quickly dissolve.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“With you or without you I have so much living left to do.”— Anonymous, somewhat-bulletproof.tumblr.com
“Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it’s a personal life or a national life.”— Hillary Clinton, abcnews.go.com
“You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“It doesn’t matter if you’re not currently where you want to be in your life. What matters is that you’re actively trying to achieve your goals rather than getting defeated.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com