Moving Quotes
207 quotes
"I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting."
"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."
"I wish I could travel west nonstop chasing sunsets. And as the time zones move backwards, I could live forever if I just kept moving."
"Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable."
"We are always going somewhereelse"
"Thankful another tomorrow greetsAs I drink from cup of time And prepare to lock the door behind meand leave it to others"
"I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally."
"It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks."
"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."
"I’ve come to understand that life is a constant letting go."
"Sometimes the only path we can maneuver is from the bed to the bathroom. That's okay. Let your journey be what it is . Just keep moving."
"Destiny is manifested only through action."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went."
"How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness."
Kathryn Hurn, HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
"You can't move things by not moving."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"It's hard to give up the being together with someone."
"The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort."
"Sunrises and sunsets were breathtaking moments in his life. Moments of exhilaration and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when he would dream. Dreams that splashed myriad colors on his mind's gray canvas!"
"She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory."
"The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred."
"Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul."
"Don’t become so impatient that you end up moving before your time & miss open doors & new opportunities. Let God direct your steps."
"It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight"
"But sometimes even people who care about each other need some time apart."
"You should enjoy the freedom. Sometimes a bit of time helps you see what matters."
"Sometimes in life you just have to take a leap of faith."
"Hurt can make you blind to the truth"
"Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along."
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"There may be something going on in your life right now, that seems like a giant, so big that you think it's impossible to conquer. But, remember no matter how gigantic your problems may be, you have everything in you to overcome. You have the power to say to that mountain move, get out my way. Activate your faith, and watch it happen. The victory is yours!"
"The world is moving at a slow pace. Each day I get up and I feel the world must have moved ahead far but, unfortunately, it remains at the same point each day."
"If you have no good drive in you, your life will not be steered through a good direction. It will miss its destined station. Passion or drive is what moves the vehicle of a fulfilled life."
"Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going."
"Reach for all the purpose you can and in the end you will find that it was fulfilled"
"Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer."
"The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move."
"O love, O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh dew."
"How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change."
"She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did."
"This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I don’t know if I really want to leave it as much as I might think and I’m sort of scared to leave it all behind, everything I’ve lived with, I have so many memories of all the things I’ve done here and I’m afraid if I leave, I might lose all my memories…"
"But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a boy's life could still matter to himself."
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
"I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy."
Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
"Pick a mentor. Select and be closer to someone who is there to talk to you, inspire you, and be on you, monitoring your affairs and movements for the best reasons and ensuring that your dreams become fruitful."
"Never keep staring at the dreams you have on the paper... Don't just live like a spectator. You have the power, you have the mine, you have the skills, you can dribble your obstacles to get your goals moving to the other"
"It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars."
"Be a goal-setter, a go-getter, all the while, moving, in humility and kindness."
"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things."
"A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life."
"Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate."
"There are those who travel but never really arrive. Those who visit a place but never know the people. Travel is so much more when you get closer to life and how it is lived here, wherever here may be. I am moving into the unknown to come into being at home wherever I find myself.Individually, inspired, and imaginative."
"If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas."
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