quotes about moving on and letting go after a breakup

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ~Moritz Guedemann



Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ~Joseph Campbell



I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. ~Adriano Tilgher



The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis



For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ~Alice Kahn



Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ~Mahatma Gandhi



He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. ~Stephen Leacock



I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted. ~Orson Scott Card



What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate. ~Bill Cosby



Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu



TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. ~Author Unknown



Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970



People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee



Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so. ~Robertson Davies, "Of the Conservation of Youth," The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks



You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ~Joseph Joubert



Does age poison us, or do we poison age? ~Astrid Alauda



Sometimes, in the grip of a sudden poetic mood, I buried myself in a God-forsaken corner of the country, and in the presence of nature aspired to purity, silence and moral rehabilitation which, alas! never lasted very long. ~"The Mission," Chapter 2



I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table. ~Michelle Pfeiffer



Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. ~Seneca



And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ~Confucius