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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.
Sep 10, 2025
Change has to come for life to struggle forward.
I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.
Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.
I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.
Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.
If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
You have to come to your closed doors before you come to your open doors
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!
There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.
Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont 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.
Just put one foot in front of the other.
Life can only be understood backwards.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
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.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.
Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.