#moving

Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#moving-on #returning #change

After five years I still had the impulse, every ten to twelve months, to find a new home. Spaces became too familiar, too elastic, too accommodating. Boredom and exasperation would set in. And though of course nothing really changed from one roof to another, I liked to harbor the illusion that small variations occurred within, that with each move something was being renewed. ↗

— Chloe Aridjis

#change

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#adversity #cherokee #collectively #continue #down

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#death #envy #god #heart #lungs

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#death #moving #death

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

#moving-on #forgiveness

In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It’s like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don’t want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever. ↗

— Jorge Bucay

#inspirational #moving-on #taking-chances #taking-risks #inspirational

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. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#death #moving #wandering #death

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. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#failure #moving-on #life

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

#happiness #history #inspirational #let-go #letting-go