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40 Quotes When You Need That Little Push To Move On

Sometimes you MUST learn how to let go. 
Rania Naim
September 19, 2016
“There comes a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.”
— Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
Tagged: Change, Leaving, Moving On, Moving Forward, Timing
“Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
Tagged: Ending, Moving On, Acceptance
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Feeling At Peace, It Will Be Okay, Moving On, Acceptance
“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.”
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Letting Go, Life, Moving On, Acceptance, Knowledge
“Remember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and you'll continue to be art even when he's gone.”
— Charlotte Geier, via Tumblr
Tagged: After Him, After Love, Moving On, Letting Go, You Are Art, Self-Love
“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Break Up, Sad, The End, Relationships, Moving On
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Tagged: Loss, Pain, Leaving, New Beginnings, Starting Over, Endings, Saying Goodbye, Goodbyes, Change
“Go, even though there is nowhere to go. Go, even though you don't know exactly why you can't stay. Go, because you want to. Because wanting to leave is enough.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Leaving, Moving On, Walking Away
“Life went on without you. Of course, it did. Of course, it does. It was just an ending, they tell me, not the end.”
— Lang Leav, Collision
Tagged: Moving On, Life, Breakups, Starting Over
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
— Ann Landers, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!:: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“You can meet someone who’s just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just accept it and move on.”
— Winna Efendi, A quote from Melbourne
Tagged: Letting Go, Moving On
“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Holding On, Letting Go, Release
“It's hard to let go of anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”
— Madeline L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Lightt
Tagged: Letting Go, Let Go, Learning To Let Go
“An EX should stay an EX. They’re an Example of false love and an Explanation of why you deserve better.”
— Unknown, Short Confessional Letter To My Ex Girlfriend/Boyfriend
Tagged: Exes, Moving On
“The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.”
— Alysia Harris, Alysia Harris
Tagged: Life Is A Journey, Walking Away, Worth, Psychology
“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you'll find you get what you need.”
— The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want (lyrics)
Tagged: Desire, Disappointment, Moving On
“All the broken hearts in the world still beat.”
— Ingrid Michaelson, Ingrid Michaelson - Girls Chase Boys (An Homage to Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible") - OFFICIAL
Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Relationships, Moving On, Healing
“Stop chasing after boys who don’t even make the effort to message you, chase you, or get to know you. You are sick of people who make you feel they don’t want you enough. Find someone who knows what they want. Find someone who knows what they want is you.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, WAR SONGS
Tagged: Enough, Never Good Enough, Moving On, Self Worth, Girl Power, Relationships, Dating, Break Up
“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
— Mo Willems, You’re Allowed To Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Moving On, Self-Love
“We sometimes look at leaving as a bad thing or associate it with giving up or quitting, but sometimes leaving is the best thing you can do for yourself.”
— Rania Naim, You’re Allowed To Leave
Tagged: Leaving, Moving On, Self-Love
“With you, I learned that sometimes the best way to love someone, was to simply love yourself more — to simply walk away, to save yourself the pain of trying to patch and sew up something that was never going to be fixed; something that was beyond repair.”
— Bianca Sparacino, Sometimes Loving Someone Does Not Always Mean That You Should Stay With Them
Tagged: Leaving, Moving On, Walking Away, Letting Go
“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel
Tagged: Revenge, even, Past, Moving On, Letting Go, Examples of Metaphors
“do not bother holding onto
that thing that does not want you

-you cannot make it stay”
— rupi, milk and honey
Tagged: Staying, Letting Go, Relationships, Love, goodbye
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Happiness Quotes, Happy, Moving On, Letting Go, Uplifting Quotes
“Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel
Somethin' that it won't”
— Adele, 25
Tagged: Love Again, Forcing Relationships, Letting Go
“If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
— Shannon Alder, Fanpage
Tagged: Leaving, Letting Go, Moving On
“She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man.”
— David Nicholls, One Day
Tagged: Relationships, Changing, Letting Go
“Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.”
— David Nicholls, One Day
Tagged: life advice, Fighting, Moving On
“Your absence taught me how to live without you, time away taught me to find peace in being alone.”
— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
Tagged: Absence, Peace, Moving On