Quotes About Happiness Moving On

#1. Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

J. Maarten Troost

#2. When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Bernie Siegel

#3. Sometimes life knocks you on your ass ... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Steve Maraboli

#4. You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

Stephen Richards

#5. Moving on is not about forgetting the past; it's about learning from it. Find the message in the mess ... Cry. Forgive. Learn. That's moving on.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Brian Tracy

#7. Men on "Women"
For men, their right to control and abuse the bodies of women is the one comforting constant in a world rigged to blow up but they do not know when."
"Coitus as punishment for the happiness of being together" which is profound and moving.

Andrea Dworkin

#8. Another day over ... or maybe another day lost. Keep moving down and forward your road of happiness of course.

Timothy Pina

#9. Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.
It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

Charles Dickens

#10. Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Steve Maraboli

#11. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Carrie Underwood

#12. You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice
that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should.

Knut Hamsun

#13. All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.

Ryan Shawcross

#14. The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

Virginia Hamilton

#15. Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.

Kristi Ling

#16. Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

Michael J. Sullivan

#17. We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.

Frank Sonnenberg

#18. There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.

Kristin Kimball

#19. The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Chanakya

#20. God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

John Piper

#21. She's all the blood I've ever shed. She's every time I've ever thought of death. She's every time I've ever looked at happiness and thought, 'That's not meant for me.

Elijah Noble El

#22. One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.

Stephen Richards

#23. As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of my own mortality and time itself becomes more precious. I don't want to spend this precious and limited time on things that don't necessarily bring me happiness.

Justin Long

#24. Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.

Sun Simiao

#25. It's not physical weight which stops us from moving forward in life. It's the mental baggage we carry all day long which sabotages our success and happiness.

Maddy Malhotra

#26. The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

Eckhart Tolle

#27. The love and hope that we are born with is what keeps us relentlessly moving toward joy. We get the most happiness from the simplicity of being devoid of wants and needs.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!

Shannon L. Alder

#29. I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

Charlotte Eriksson

#30. Life is moving with its own speed no matter how slow or how fast you are going.

Debasish Mridha

#31. A life of both sadness and blissfulness is multi-dimensional; it moves in all dimensions together. Watch the statue of Buddha or sometimes look into my eyes and you will find both together - a blissfulness, a peace, a sadness also.

Rajneesh

#32. If the things behind you are tripping you, you're moving in the wrong direction.

Steve Maraboli

#33. Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

Adi Shankara

#34. Sometimes, in order to find happiness, one must allow some old bridges to collapse, in order to build better ones.

Lionel Suggs

#35. It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

Maria Luisa Bombal

#36. Pursuit of happiness is like chasing a moving target - a target stuck to the belly of a frolicsome kangaroo.

Majid Kazmi

#37. It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.

Christina Aguilera

#38. Keep moving forward and be true to yourself. You are the only one who can ensure your own happiness.

Carine McCandless

#39. Get out of your own way ... stop the paralysis by analysis ... decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!

Steve Maraboli

#40. When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

Winston Churchill

#41. Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

Timothy Egan

#42. Are you worried? About moving to Russia?" She smiled. "No, mio caro figlio. I'm not worried either." She kissed him. "My lovely, living boy," she said, kissing him between each word. "My hope" - kiss - "my happiness" - kiss - "my love, my life, my joy." Kiss, kiss, kiss.

Paullina Simons

#43. Desires move us from one station to another in this life while we search for beauty, love, and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#44. Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

Earl Nightingale

#45. For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#46. Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.

Wayne L. Misner

#47. The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Quentin Crisp

#48. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Shannon L. Alder

#49. The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.

Melody Carstairs

#50. To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

Daisaku Ikeda

#51. We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life

Deepak Chopra

#52. Joy is a perception of elation which keeps us moving with life.

Debasish Mridha

#53. Happiness is a moving target.

Kinky Friedman

#54. I hold in my arms a moving heaven, who holds within her all of my hope and all of my happiness. Safely enshrined within her slender frame are meaning and purpose an angel would envy.

Sparrow AuSoleil

#55. The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you.

Brian Tracy

#56. Bad shit happens all the time. You keep moving forward until you find some happiness that made you glad you kept moving,

R.J. Prescott

#57. No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship ... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

Elisabeth Sladen

#58. When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.

Stephen Richards

#59. 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

#60. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Gautama Buddha

#61. At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.

Sandy Gingras

#62. Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.

Neal Shusterman

#63. You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

Oprah Winfrey

#64. You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter ...

Carmen DeSousa

#65. I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.

Russell Simmons

#66. Life is always moving and going, but are you really living?

Debasish Mridha

#67. The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

Johnette Napolitano

#68. Life is just like an ocean; we are moving without end. Nothing stays with us, what remains is just the memories of someone who touched us like waves.

Debasish Mridha

#69. Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

Sakyong Mipham