moving-forward

We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we__e planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us.The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come.If we fix on the old, we get stuck.When we hang onto any form,we are in danger of putrefaction.Hell is life drying up.

Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.

The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don__ have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I__ headed, I know it__ exactly where I__ supposed to be.

Time does not heal wounds. It's a body's ritual that does. The instinctual cleansing with rain or other waters, the application of salves. Despite the sting. Even neglected, the body begins to take care. To repair itself. Blood clots, tissues regenerate, flesh scars. Soon, the thin white line is the only evidence of the pain. It is the body, not time. Time does nothing except create distance between the body and that which caused it harm. Recollection of fear can be stronger than the original fear itself. Similarly, bliss is sometimes more vivid when recollected. How else do you explain longing? Longing for what has already passed. That's the real pain. But you insisted, you pried with your fingers to see. You retuned to me after I turned away. You made me recollect for you, collect again and again for you, interrupting the healing with your curiosity. Now that I have given you the words, you may long for them. You may miss me. You may try to find the notes to the song again and again and won't be able to find them. Perhaps, the wounds I made will already have begun to scar. Maybe the body will have begun its ritual of forgetting. I told you not to ask for haunted, not to ask me to recollect. Because recollection is like tearing at closed wounds. Like pealing back the careful tissue put there by the body to make it safe. And because remembered pain is always worse than the original pain, because this time it is expected. This time you already know how much it will hurt.

Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.

At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart.

If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life.

Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.

The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

You are hatching from the past.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

I try not to look backwards, Elise. Makes is hard to see where you're going.

We're all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn't value it.

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

When you decide to be all you can be you will be better for it

You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.

You are moving forward one way or another.