“It’s more important to have the will to grow and stay open to all the infinite possibilities than to know exactly where you’re going. That will change as you change.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”— Joel Osteen, amazon.com
“You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“It’s hard to recognize that life isn’t a holding action, but a process. It’s hard to learn that we don’t leave the best parts of ourselves behind, back in the dugout or the office. We own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives. And when we exit, we can…”— Ellen Goodman, seattletimes.com
“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.com
“We can't really affect the circumstances on what does happen to us, but we can affect how we respond to it. And I thought that it was important for us to be able to forgive and to move on. Because if we devolve with it, you can imagine the anger and hurt that you continue to have.”— Vivian Stringer, amazon.com
“I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause. It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.”— Po Bronson, amazon.com
“Forgiveness doesn't mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again. Forgiveness means you've found a way forward that acknowledges harm done and hurt caused without letting either your anger or your pain rule your life or define your relationship with the one who did you wrong.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“You see, my young ladies knew that in order to prevail, they needed to think like champions. That means stepping up, no matter what kind of obstacles life puts in front of you. It means digging deep within yourself and finding the will to fight, no matter how many times you get knocked down. Most of…”— Vivian Stringer, amazon.com
“But though I had an anchor, I did not think to bring a compass.”— Alex R. Jones, narrativemagazine.com
“If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.”— Michael J Fox, books.google.com
“Sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson's, I've learned that what is important is making that step count.”— Michael J Fox, amazon.com
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what'. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com