Many lessons and talents can be learned from a lifetime of experience.
Some will be obvious, such as how to wash your chores, invest your money, and raise your children.
Some of them may be more delicate and cerebral, but they will all be significant. Ideas include how to deal with illness, rejection, and what to do if a relationship isn’t working.
When to move on is one of the most significant abilities that everyone would benefit from acquiring if they want to live a fruitful life.
For a variety of reasons, moving on and thinking about the future might be difficult.
First, we may be deeply connected to, or even addicted to, what we need to let go of. Second, because we’ve already spent so much, it might be difficult to establish a balance between when to let things go and when to keep pressing forward.
The sunk costs fallacy is a term used in behavioral economics to describe when we make the error of holding on for too long.
Fortunately for us, the difficulties of moving on can be reduced by listening to intelligent others who have dealt with similar situations.
35+ Quotes AboutMoving on and self-improvement
When people discuss moving on, it’s usually in the context of relationships and heartbreak.
That’s because love is one of the deepest emotional experiences, and the same brain chemicals that underlie certain addiction problems also control us when we’re in love.
As we become more mature and competent individuals, we begin to truly understand that everything will pass. This is why knowing when to keep moving forward is so intimately tied to personal development and emotional maturity.
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.― Roy T. Bennett
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 of the floor and move on.___Tupac Shakur
Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.― Roy T. Bennet
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost
If love becomes too painful, then it’s time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you’ll be able to find another love but not another self. – Robert Tew
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
I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.___Fridtjof Nansen
Understanding when to let go of a relationship, a shop, or even a notion you still have about yourself is an important aspect of knowing when to move on.
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.― Roy T. Bennet
A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.___Jodi Picoult
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up, and move on. – Dave Pelzer
It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.___Steve Maraboli
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.___Steve Maraboli
Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier. – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. – Shannon L. Alder
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.― Roy T. Bennet
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
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.___Walt Disney
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.___Beryl Markham
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.― Roy T. Bennett
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.― Roy T. Bennett
Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
The importance of planning and forward-thinking
When we decide it is time to let go, we must go forth with a plan so we have the confidence to know where we are going.
Look forward, not behind. Your best days are still out in front of you. Be focused and keep your dreams ALIVE – Adedayo Olabamiji
Do something today that your future self will thank you for.___Anonymous
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1000 percent return on energy.___Brian Tracy
It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.― Roy T. Bennett
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.___Thomas Edison
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.___Pablo Picasso
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.___Steve Jobs
If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling back.___Sam Waterson
Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don’t let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.― Roy T. Bennett
Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.― Roy T. Bennett
