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Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.
— Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of thousands were scheming to take the next boat for the South Seas or the West Indies, or better still for Paris, from which they could scatter to Majorca, Corsica, Capri or the isles of Greece. Paris itself was a modern city that seemed islanded in the past, and there were island countries, like Mexico, where Americans could feel that they had escaped from everything that oppressed them in a business civilization. Or without leaving home they could build themselves private islands of art or philosophy; or else - and this was a frequent solution - they could create social islands in the shadow of the skyscrapers, groups of close friends among whom they could live as unconstrainedly as in a Polynesian valley, live without moral scruples or modern conveniences, live in the pure moment, live gaily on gin and love and two lamb chops broiled over a coal fire in the grate. That was part of the Greenwich Village idea, and soon it was being copied in Boston, San Francisco, everywhere.
— Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has resulted in our "cut flower culture." Cut flowers retain their original beauty and fragrance, but only so long as they retain the vitality that they have drawn from their now-severed roots; after that is exhausted, they wither and die. So with freedom, brotherhood, justice, and personal dignity — the values that form the moral foundation of our civilization. Without the life-giving power of the faith out of which they have sprung, they possess neither meaning nor vitality.
— Will Herberg, Judaism and Modern Man - An Interpretation of Jewish Religion
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar advances and mistakes.
— Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Rampaging horsemen can conquer
—  only the city can civilize.
You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.
— Tupac Shakur
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.
— Nicholas Sparks
You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
— Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..
— H.P. Lovecraft
Life moves on and so should we
— Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
When you love someone, it's never over,' Dr. Carruthers replied gently. 'You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.
— Elizabeth Chandler, Kissed by an Angel
If I kept saying it
—  if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.
You are worth everything that nature can give you.And I pray to whatever I believe in that you find your happiness. You find pride in yourself.And you find true love.And you can look at that person and understand the impact that have had in your life.Because you have surprised me with every step you took.And if letting you go means that I love you.Then I love you.Have fun out there.
— Philippe Renaud
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
— Justin Timberlake
The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
— Oprah Winfrey
Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.
— Wayne L. Misner
When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to exist and you’re nothing but a shell of the person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it in her way, me in mine, and you in yours.” He lifted his hand off John’s gravestone and rose. “Your mom hates the world, I avoid it, and you try to save it.
— Nicole  Williams, Crash
How are you, Rory?' [the Doctor] asked.I [Rory]... answered him. 'It's been odd being you.''Isn't it?' The Doctor's smile didn't quite reach his eyes.'How do you cope?''Ah...' The Doctor picked away at a scrap of loose paint on the door. 'Well, I just get as close as I can to a happy ending, then I shut the door behind me and move on.'I nodded.We shut the door behind us and moved on.
— James Goss, Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Do the things that you always wanted to, without me there to hold you back, don't think just do, more than anything I want to see you go, take a glorious bite out of the whole world
— Snow Patrol
Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life.
— Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed
Don't tie your heart to a person that has nothing left to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while, but when you get over it, you'll see that its better.
— Orebela Gbenga
Then he remembered Ralph's words--"no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right.
— M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
— Zena Wynn, Beyond the Breaking Point
At some point, to counter the list of the dead, I had begun keeping my own list of the living. It was something I noticed Len Fenerman did too. When he was off duty he would note the young girls and elderly women and every other female in the rainbow in between and count them among the things that sustained him. The young girl in the mall whose pale legs had grown too long for her now too-young dress and who had an aching vulnerability that went straight to both Len's and my own heart. Elderly women, wobbling with walkers, who insisted on dyeing their hair unnatural versions of the colors they had in youth. Middle-aged single mothers racing around in grocery stores while their children pulled bags of candy off the shelves. When I saw them, I took count. Living, breathing women. Sometimes I saw the wounded- those who had been beaten by husbands or raped by strangers, children raped by their fathers- and I would wish to intervene somehow. Len saw these wounded women all the time. They were regulars at the station, but even when he went somewhere outside his jurisdiction he could sense them when they came near. The wife in that bait-'n'-tackle shop had no bruises on her face but cowered like a dog and spoke in apologetic whispers. The girl he saw walk the road each time he went upstate to visit his sisters. As the years passed she'd grown leaner, the fat from her cheeks had drained, and sorrow had loaded her eyes in a way that made them hang heavy and hopeless inside her mallowed skin. When she was not there it worried him. When she was there it both depressed and revived him. ~Len Fenerman on stepping back/letting go/giving uppgs 271-272
— Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.
— Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they're happening, they feel like the only thing that matters and you can hardly imagine that there's a world out there that might have anything else going on. And then the glow cloud moves on. And you move on. And the event is behind you. And you may find, as time passes, that you remember it less and less. Or absolutely not at all, in my case.
— Cecil Baldwin
There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who. Ivy-who-is-not-me.Not me. Not me. Not me.
— Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.
— Sarah Dessen, That Summer
When we let go of our pride, we give ourselves permission to be human. We give ourselves permission to slip up and hurt and to grow without ridiculous standards of perfection constantly looming over our heads. We give ourselves a chance to face conflicts, to face ourselves, and to heal. And, in this healing process, we give others a chance to follow our lead.
— Liz  Newman
The fear of abandonment forced me to comply as a child, but I’m not forced to comply anymore. The key people in my life did reject me for telling the truth about my abuse, but I’m not alone. Even if the consequence for telling the truth is rejection from everyone I know, that’s not the same death threat that it was when I was a child. I’m a self-sufficient adult and abandonment no longer means the end of my life.
— Christina Enevoldsen, The Rescued Soul: The Writing Journey for the Healing of Incest and Family Betrayal
There will always be something a little off, but like a three-legged dog, you’ll learn to walk again.
— Renee Carlino, After the Rain
Life is a combo of attachment and detachment. Love is the most natural thing and you are bound to get attached to persons, places and things. However, while getting attached so, you should know that all these attachments too have an expiry date. It's exactly at that point that the art of detachment helps. Persons, places and things are meant for specific periods in life after which you should know how to let go and embrace newer things. The world is beautiful and you should have belief in Him.
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
It's easy to move on when things are so bad that you can't stand them anymore. It's harder when they're just mediocre.
— Catherine Jones Payne, Breakwater
Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds.Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness.Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.
— Paulo Coelho, The Spy
He was going to miss everything. But he guessed that was how everybody always felt. Everyone was losing things, leaving things behind, clinging to old memories as they rushed into the future. Everyone was a passenger on a runaway train.
— Philip Reeve, Railhead
We have not erased history; we are becoming part of the city's history by righting the wrong image these monuments represent and crafting a better, more complete future for all our children and for future generations.
— Mitch Landrieu
It was easy to tell Jamie to move on, be happy with someone else. But she saw now that it would absolutely kill her to see him with another woman.
— Neha Yazmin, Someone Like You
Identities aren’t meant to be permanent. They’re like cars: they take us from one place to another. We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair. At that point, living well means finding a new model that better suits us for a new moment.
— Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman
I could barely even say Will's name. And listening to their tales of family relationships, of thirty-year marriages, shared houses, lives, children, I felt like a fraud. I had been a carer for someone for six months. I'd loved him, and watched him end his life. How could these strangers possibly understand what Will and I had been to each other during that time? How could I explain the way we had so swiftly understood each other, the shorthand jokes, the blunt truths and raw secrets? How could I convey the way those short months had changed the way I felt about everything? The way he had skewed my world so totally that it made no sense without him in it?
— Jojo Moyes, After You
So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
As incredible as it seemed, time kept moving forward for the rest of the world.The rest of the world that wasn't waiting.
— Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
Ummmm hi" and my broken heart twitches in an attempt to start beating again
— Yesenia Barkley
How will you live if every little thing from your memories always hurt you so easily?
— Mika Yamamori, ひるなかの流星 9 [Hirunaka no Ryuusei 9]
There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees - as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.
— Ruth Ahmed, When Ali Met Honour
I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one.
— Rebecca Forster, Hostile Witness
Yes, we will get hurt. Our hearts will break, and if we are lucky they will break open. When they do, we can begin to experience ourselves, relationships—indeed all of life—in a deeper, richer, and more meaningful way.
— Randy  Siegel, Break Up, Wake Up, Move On: From Broken Heart to Open Heart; Prepare for the Partner You've Always Longed For
Most breakups are awful. But with compassion, attention, introspection, and intention they can become transforming, bringing you closer to alignment with your true self while preparing you for the next great adventure.
— Randy  Siegel, Break Up, Wake Up, Move On: From Broken Heart to Open Heart; Prepare for the Partner You've Always Longed For
I'm going to move forward, facing in your direction with all my might.
— Mika Yamamori, ひるなかの流星 10 [Hirunaka no Ryuusei 10]
Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.
— Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not
I can't think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you,Than to live and love life more without them.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Live & Remember
Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness. And it’s important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I’m hurting. But isn’t that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?
— Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love
I know someone said it's over,And shattered all your dreams.Come here, oh tattered soul.Broken dreams, you say.Now that you're awake,Let me show you something I learned the same hard way.Get up and give yourself a shake.Life is for living, so don't die for anyone's sake.What I say heals her heart.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Live & Remember
Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.
— Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War
You're not good for me when you're not mine.
— David Gatata
To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside.
— L.J. Vanier, Ether: Into the Nemesis
As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again.
— Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.
— Sade Andria Zabala, War Songs
Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.
— April Mae Monterrosa
I know it's not the end...it's only just the beginning.
— Lisa Schroeder, Chasing Brooklyn
I don't know about forever, but I love you just the same.
— Jay E. Tria, Songs of Our Breakup
The biggest surprise-- and it came as a great revalation-- was understanding that whatever happens, no matter how catastrophic or wonderful, it's just another patch. There are times when something special happens: a marriage, graduation, or the birth of a child. There's no denying it's a glorious patch. It might even be a red patch-- the one that pulls the whole quilt together. But I couldn't stop repeating, "It's just another patch.
— Sue Bender, Plain and Simple: A Journey to the Amish
Moving on is not forgetting - moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it.
— Sam Madison, The Heartbroken Heartbreaker
The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
LYNDA (TO TINY):Look forward to the momentwhen it falls apart.Look forward to themomentwhen you mustrearrange yourheart.It might feel like theend of the world-but it's the beginning of yourart.
— David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
when you have a reasonable reason to dare, dare swiftly and unrelentingly
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There was a smart, sunny girl out there right now somewhere, a Ray on a trajectory that would cross his path, a girl who made sense with him. I was just as glad not to know her this very minute, but she existed, and he would run into her, and with time I would accept it.
— Elizabeth Fama, Plus One
You have to move forward in life. You can’t sit in the same place, unless you want to, that’s a choice too. But you can’t sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward makes them uncomfortable.”Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. “Country.” Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
— Danielle Steel
What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Sometimes it's better to end something & try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.
— Karen Salmansohn
Don't focus on who let you down. Appreciate who lifted you up. Don't focus on who darkened your days. Appreciate who brightened them.
— Karen Salmansohn
Your mission: May you continue to shine no matter the storms you have been through.
— Karen Salmansohn
Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.
— Karen Salmansohn, Bounce Back Book
Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Moving on is not like a birthday, you can’t count down the hours ‘til it arrives and you can’t mark it on a calendar and you can’t call up your friends to help you celebrate. You can’t plan for it and you can’t conclude it by blowing out a candle. When moving on happens there will be no announcements, no notifications, no congratulations. There will be no parade; only you will know.
— Stephanie Georgopulos
I'm not trying to upset you. I just think it's about time you move
— Alexis  Hall, Waiting for the Flood
You’ll pass through highs and lows in life, and somehow, somewhere, you’ll lose the urge to call him up everytime something good or bad happens. For every song that reminds you of him, you’ll find five new ones that remind you of something better, something more important. You’ll stop thinking that the break-up was somehow your fault. You’ll finally see him for what he is, and yet you won’t hate him. No, it will not be hate, but indifference that will replace love.
— Jane Finn
The inside jokes have already dissolved into unordered words with no punchline. The gifts have been reduced to objects whose saving grace is their monetary value, no meaning and all function. There are photographs, somewhere, but I’m not the person posed in them anymore and whoever that is sitting next to me, all dressed up in your costume and wearing your mask, well, that’s not you either.
— Stephanie Georgopulos
I'll care for you, love you, support you and so much more.But do not beg for it when you've abused it.I can not love you. When your heart doesn't speak the same music.
— T.Taylor
When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?” Your strength must come from having faith that someday the answer will come and then it will all make sense.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story.
— Faraaz Kazi
Whatever you had -- I don't know what it was, and that's fine. But it must not be easy for you. You miss him, and that's okay. But you have to figure that if it's too much hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.
— David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
But trust me, it's best to face something head on, smash it, and move on with your life. Lingering and wondering, waiting and worrying... that kills you.
— Jennifer Ashley, The Wicked Deeds of Daniel Mackenzie
Sometimes when a person does things to deliberately hurt you,All you need to do is shift atleast six steps back to observe the situation.If it is worth enduring, move two steps forward.If not, turn around and bless them with your back.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
My innocence is wearin' thinBut my heart is growing strong.
— Fifth Harmony
you live each day one at a timeyou live every day all at onceyou live with the possibility of good-byeyou move on.
— David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
In all honesty, it’s just time for me to move on with my life. Lord knows he moved on with his, Rala replied
— A. Petrov
Moving on is the hardest thing to do, when that person made your life worth living for. Nomatter how difficult it's but we have to let go for own sake. Remember that your life is more precious than anything in this world.
— S.Z.J. Mtshali
The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Hearts may break, and relationships end, but life goes on. You can't stop life's motion; it's either you let life pass you by or you go with it's motion.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Life's Motion
You have to realize that in life there’re certain things out of your control. You can only do so much and hope that the situation would be remedied. "It is what it is," so don’t be in denial and know your limits. If it’s meant to be then a short conversation would solve the situation, otherwise you're investing resources into something that’s really nothing. Just say and do what's necessary and if it doesn’t work out then so be it. Move on with the attitude like "Fuck It." Chapters in life are meant to end so the next can start and GOD leaves no one empty handed.
— John Yang aka Private83
You know the good thing with hardships and moving on? -- you'll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better!
— Ira N. Barin
Life moves on but i want to live alone.
— Daniel Martin
It was over, and I knew that. But you don't love someone for almost two years and then turn it off overnight...
— Kiera Cass, The Selection
things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one, of those times, Hem. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.
— Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
'Everything is temporary. Nothing lasts. We're born. We die. Life's all about loss and change. Things happen, we learn to adapt or we don't, but we move on in some way or another. Sometimes that's hard and takes longer than we'd like.' 
— Barbara Elsborg, Every Move He Makes
Forgetting isn’t the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we’ve remembered can we forget.
— Emma  Hart, The Right Moves
Move on. Life won't wait for you.
— Angela Glowacki
There are things better left unknown.matters better left untoldand things better left unsettled.
— Mark Verndick
Was’ and ‘is’ – in English there is very little difference between these two words. Only one letter more , just two letters different. But it is a lifetime, it is a world of difference. Time does not allow you to take the past along with you. Nothing remains unchanged. Love gets diluted, hate is forgotten and friendship and enmity keep shifting all the time. One day, when you look back, you will ask yourself – what was it all about.
— Shashi Deshpande, In the Country of Deceit
Press Onward! We all make mistakes. It's time we stop dwelling on them and move forward. Ask for forgiveness from others, forgive yourself and then...full steam ahead. Darkness has no greater companion than a self loathing un-forgiven or unforgiving heart. Paul writes in Philippians: "…But one thing I do, forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal..." Press on dear friends for life, love and joy await you! ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint of redemption with six years of disappointment.No matter what you do,, it will never make up for what happened between us. I will never trust you. I will never again be comfortable around you. I will never look at you or think of you without considering the destruction you have train wrecked through my life.I wish you the very best in your future, because without you in my life I think I might finally have a future. And as angry as I am with what you have put me through, I am so very glad that we are now at this moment. This moment means I can move on the bigger and better things without you constantly weighing on my shoulders.I will never again turn a corner in New York terrified that I will run into you and even more terrified that I won't. I can go into any coffee shop I want.I can hope for love again. A love that will be more than anything you ever attempted to give me. Because the love I am looking for will be reciprocted one hundred and ten percent. There will never be another someone to distract our affections, because YOU will not be in the picture.*****So, as sad as this day is for me, as I am losing a part of myself with the loss of you, it is really just the beginning for me. It is like cutting off the spoiled part to get the juicy center. So, I would appreciate it this time, if you did not try and contact me. Because, as I'm sure you know, I deserve much better. I want everything this time around, and I deserve it!*****
— K.A. Linde, Avoiding Commitment
What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?
— Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs
I need a drink. Now.”After tossing—fine, throwing—my purse and keys on the couch, I march straight into the kitchen. No more delays; it's time to forget tonight. It’s been yet another night like all the other first dates that never meet a second one. When you begin to lose count, that's when it's really time for a drink.Adrian stands there, leaning against the counter in an unbuttoned dress shirt and dark wash jeans. He glances at me as I walk in. “How was your date?” he asks, taking a swig of his scotch.I brush past him on my mission, opening the cupboard and moving a couple bottles around. I reiterate, “I need alcohol.”Out of the corner of my eye, I catch him hiding a smile before he says, “That bad?”My face twitches as I ignore his line of questioning. It is more like a statement he wants me to clarify, even though he already knows the answer. Instead, I ask, “I have vodka left, don't I?” I stand on my tiptoes in hopes of spotting something in the very back. Nothing.He waltzes over and looks with me, his chin almost touching my shoulder. “I think you polished that one off after last week's date.” His voice is low right next to my ear, very nearly causing a shiver.
— Lilly Avalon, Here All Along: A Short Story
Don't try fixing something that is already broken to begin with.
— John Robert Go
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before.
— Harriet Evans, Happily Ever After
So nobody got time for people who aren't worth your time.
— Fiona Chazhoor
Elle wondered if he had regrets. But she didn't let herself wonder for too long. She had locked her heart up against him, and it would take something extraordinarily strong to break it open.
— Harriet Evans, Happily Ever After
In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It’s like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don’t want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.
— Jorge Bucay, Déjame que te cuente
They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of you lives with your Loved One on the other side.
— Daniel Yanez
I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
If you walk out on me, i'm not walking out after you.
— David Reeves, In My Opinion
As long as your name is NOT Jesus,I CAN live without you
— Roezeay Dube
I’ve been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect “forever” that I’m completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.
— Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl
It's better to say goodbye, to move on, to end the lie.
— S.C. Stephens
Explain it to me."But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood., If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
VIEW FROM A HILLI am not yet quite over it.I am lying down on top of it.Surveying behind me a wastelandOf dried-up promise.While the lights below twinkleWith dull mocking uncertainty.There isn't much left to look forward to,And the looking forward of the past has been belied.
— John Tottenham, The Inertia Variations
She has no regrets; she knows now he could never have made her happy, even though he has, apparently, joined AA, is doing better. But sobriety is his journey, not hers; he needs to do it for himself, alone. Still, she misses him hugely, doesn't feel ready for another relationship yet. But as time passes, she hopes that she might be, eventually, with someone new, easier, kinder.
— Sarah Rayner, One Moment, One Morning
I’m positive I wouldn’t consider having sex with Guy if I hadn’t already had sex beforehand. I always knew I wanted my first time to be with someone I loved and who loved me, which it was . . . but shouldn’t I want that for everytime? I disagree with what Amy said about how once you go all the way, you can’t go back to “everything but.” But now that I have done it, it doesn’t seem nearly as big a deal to do it again.
— Daria Snadowsky, Anatomy of a Single Girl
Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . "Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In
— Eileen Granfors
Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones.
— Lionel Suggs
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
— Maya Angelou
The sun shines not on us but in us.
— John Muir
We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.
— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face. But there must have been some magic in his mane. She could feel lion-strength going into her. Quite suddenly she sat up. "I'm sorry, Aslan," she said. "I'm ready now.""Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed.
— C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. You may (possibly) all live to thank me yet.
— J. R. R. Tolken
People can be at their most vulnerable, but still tenacious at the same time.
— Toni Bernhard
Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all? Pierre asked himself. "No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Bullies are weak!Bullies are cowards!Bullies are full of hot air!Time to let go of the balloons and let the bullies, Fly Away!
— Joanfrances Boyle
Shasta's heart fainted at these words for he felt he had no strength left. And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
Ah, you noticed that black sheep on the hills aren't nearly as plentiful as the white. They're a particularly hardy lot.
— Hannah Reed
When a situation feels like a matter of life and death the deep self is close at hand and it already carries inner medicine and its own life remedy.
— Michael Meade, Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul
Either you must control your thoughts or the outside forces will control them and be warned that the outside forces usually consist of fears, worries and doubts.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Either you must control your thoughts or the outside forces will control them and be warned that the outside forces are usually negative.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain". If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain!
— Manuela George-Izunwa
When you push yourself beyond limits, you discover inner reserves, which you never thought existed earlier.
— Manoj Arora, Dream On
Its just a part of life , just a chapter , just a phase ; it is to be over and it will but i has taught the harsh realities of life. In the end , your support lies in yourself. No one comes to rescue you , you have to gird up your loin against all the odds and you are to raise by your own. You cant make people happy. You will die trying to come up to their marks and you ll end up losing your own identity. Losing your self to any other is like deing uselessly.
— Adeel bin ahmed
The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I'd measure my progress in inches. One more inch I've swum—one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody's river can bring you down.
— Bette Greene, Summer of My German Soldier
Time, place, and space for all things, but spending [the] majority of one's time playing in outer places, and far less time exploring inner space, is perhaps the worst form of neglect. Don't play yourself; the real you awaits.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
People admire inner bonfires that burn so bright, and out of ignorance to these things, they gather around and think that the bonfire is some kind of blessing on their behalf, is some kind of untouched thing that knows only the purity of everything. It's all ignorance. The larger the bonfire, and the brighter it burns, the more evident the fact that it has consumed more wood and more air than the smaller ones. You burn because you have to burn. And you're not burning for others, you're not burning to be a blessing; you burn because you have to burn.
— C. JoyBell C.
May you find new strength to accomplish your daily work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Rejoice in your troubles, all things will work for your good.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A winner endures all pain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There's something about the flower that grows through the rocks, the pavement; through logs and stone or brick walls... all roses are beautiful; but the rose that emerges unexpectedly through the asphalt has a beauty of soul. The flower that reaches through the brokenness of the wall has a beauty of spirit. You stop to look and not only to look but to cherish! Somewhere along its journey, it decided that it would reach for what was unseen, keep going in the direction of something that wasn't felt, it decided that it would be. That it would become. And it did. And there is something irreplaceable about that.
— C. JoyBell C.
The Holy Grail is within you – find your Inner Treasure
— Jay Woodman
When we enter the world as a child, they say we are innocent. When we leave the world as an older adult, we have each experienced a mixture of life's sorrow and joys. The years bring diverse events and mindsets, clouding up our vision, so that we no longer see things as they are, but we view now with lenses of many different shapes, sizes and influential colors depending on life’s encounters. It is then, with this cleansing of your inner lens, that you figure out once again, who you are, resulting in numerous side trips, to rediscover your true self, possibly experiencing a reawakening. This sensational feeling of inner peace is unimaginable.
— Wes Adamson
I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same.
— Ned Hayes, Sinful Folk
There is a mighty power within every man to accomplish great things.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is inner strength and believe in a brighter tomorrow.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
There is a powerful for within each of us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What we become shouldn't be dictated by the mud and the dung and the dust and the fire and the ice and the dirt and the spit that hit us in the face, but what we become must be a choice made every day in the heart; and they who threw all of that at us to try and defile us– they will look up at us and see us no less beautiful. And even more beautiful.
— C. JoyBell C.
Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!
— Victoria Addino
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".
— Solomon ibn Gabirol
Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
— Alex Flinn, Beastly
The path of destiny pulls you forward. It exhumes you from a state of being and propels you towards the juncture you were created for. A new frontier that you are forced to tread with a cross on your back, heavy as a boulder. When you fall to your knees at the hands of your betrayer, you can only hope to find the one sent to carry your burden -- shoulder the journey towards your final punishment.Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes the failed intention of a masterful ally.
— Addison Moore, Vex
Yesterday ended last night.
— John C. Maxwell, The 15 laws of growth
The most painful thing is losing Someone who was always beside you...!
— kawthar koukou
Somehow We all are Burning Ourselves as We Constantly Thinking About Our Past.
— Bunny Naidu
Don't cross the boundaries.
— Anonymous, The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death. It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that all this is nonsense. It's the truth I'm telling you. I do value my idea and my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Reality. I am stuck. I am hostage to my own destination. When I close my eyes, my wings can take me anywhere in the universe. I abandon myself and I soar. Where only the most profound and intense souls can withstand the sick atmospheres.
— Robert Neil Flieischer
When your head is held high, society pry.
— Aditi Vyas
It's life's failure and its deficiencies that make someone a daydreamer. I don't understand why prophets and philosophers didn't see the significance in that. I think imagination is at the heart of reality, or at least, is the immediate definition and interpretation of reality.
— Shokoofeh Azar, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
After sounding a lot like other people in my decades of past I have found my own voice when I realized I needed Christ and in so doing I am becoming just like Him as time marches on.
— John M Sheehan
Not every smiling faces are really smilling..
— Brighton Mabuya
You can't see and feel the sky if you keep looking to the ground.
— Abdel Halim Boudekhana
So let's say you marry this girl. All right, you can still be a great man. Look at all the great men who had wives. Go ahead, be a great man, don't let me stop you. Only first you should stop by the grocer and pick up something for the dog. Also for the baby, soft, because he's getting his teeth. To do this, you have to have a job five days a week, you can be a great man on week ends.
— Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
The problem with many believers today is that they try to cooperate with the world
— Sunday Adelaja
Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,let’s stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
Your real world is inside of you.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
What is held real is based upon personal beliefs that drive perception.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
The world looks too small when you believe in your eyes
— saqib abraham, The Prophet's Epistle: A Leaf of Wisdom
It's not becoming hell but it's already been hell, I just couldn't see it.
— Ajay Kumar
You can save people's lives but you can't save them from life!
— Ajay Kumar
The purpose of God as a creator is based in a profound need resident within the Godhead
— Sunday Adelaja
There are 3 ways to tell a lie:1 - Tell only part of the truth which makes the truth a deception of convenience.2 - Tell the whole truth but do it so unconvincing that it is perceived to be a lie 3 - Just all out fabricate a lie
— Levon Peter Poe
Leofric met her eye, his own gaze hard. He was clearly losing patience with her. “This is life,” he snapped. “It’s not sweet and it’s not pretty—but before you look at me with scorn remember I’ve just saved both our lives.
— Jayne Castel, The Whispering Wind
This is not the thing I want. But this is the thing that I need.
— Kushiro Shoko
The real youis much too big to be your own.
— Ivan M. Granger
There’s no greater feeling that brings joy to the heart like peace because we can do nothing well without joy, and a good conscience.
— Abduazeez Henry Musa
There’s nothing that brings peace to the mind like joy.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in different views. Somehow, if we could remove those glasses, we can see the world with real colors. Name of the most difficult to remove glass is ‘there are permanent things of mine.
— Muditha Champika, Theories of Nature and the Universe: Comparison of Pure Buddhist Philosophy and Science
In life, you can either hate yourself or like yourself. If you choose to hate yourself, your life will be miserable and if you choose to like yourself, there is no limit to what you can accomplish.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
That is the word of reality - need.
— Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End
He said he'll be there. And he did. Stuff like this is so rare.
— Sarvesh Jain, The Awakening Wisdom of Life: Probably the best Quotation Book in the world
Apology means nothing without change, you have to follow it up with action.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
One of life’s greatest lessons is learning from our own mistakes.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
No matter how much you nourish, the flower blossoms in its own time. Just like people.
— Sarvesh Jain, The Awakening Wisdom of Life: Probably the best Quotation Book in the world
Let go of your PAST.…live in the NOW!
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
What divide us are not our Differences but our prejudicial attitudes towards others.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.
— Bill Hicks
People are going to be upset in life no matter what we do, Bexley. Might as well go big or go home. (Jude)
— Frankie Love, Hollywood Holden
Answers don't actually matter that much, it's what you chose to believe
— Shayne Y.
You will never know how it feels unless you were the one facing the situation.
— Shayne Y.
Your purpose is your profession.
— James Hew
Truth is "the prize of life is death".
— Mapogo Chuene