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im looking for quotes about moving on from a hard past. Ive been arrested, smoked, and drank like there was no tomorrow. lost a job and too many friends. I've come past all this and changed for the better. I would like a quote to represent this.

Answer 1

I remember the mornings,evenings and afternoons.I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.T.S Eliot.(Born St.Loius,Missouri).

Answer 2

There are a few Eleanor Roosevelt quotes that might be helpful for you:

    "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

    "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

    "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Or maybe something from Oscar Wilde?

    "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

    "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

(I especially like the last one, as it shows hopefulness...)

Good luck!

Answer 3

Don't hold onto your past - there's a reason it's not coming back

Don't let things that have happened in your past ruin what will happen in your future

My life is my message

It is never too late to do the right thing

Answer 4

"The joy of becoming whole is always accompanied by tears. Every step toward a healthy body, mind and soul asks that we say goodbye to something familiar."- Susan Jeffers

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight"- Jim Rohn

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."- Anais Nin

"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."- Jorge Luis Borges

Answer 5

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from

facing head-on the hard truths and saying,

“We will never give up. We will never capitulate.

It might take a long time, but we will find a way

to prevail.”

Jim Collins, from his book,

Good to Great

~ Sometimes the cards we are dealt are not always fair. However you must keep smiling & moving on ~

~ Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. ~

~ Quietly forgiving and moving on is a gift to God ~ and yourself. ~