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While moving on isn't always a bad thing, change is rarely easy.  If it was, poets, authors and musicians wouldn't have so much inspiring material, would they?   In the moving business, we talk to people daily whose move across country is tied directly to a life-changing event.  Some folks are moving on thanks to happy events, and some due to not-so-happy circumstances.  Considering the number of people who find themselves in the "moving on" position in life, we thought you might be interested in some great quotes designed to help get you through.  Some are positive, some funny, some intellectual and some are down-right tearjerkers…and they'll all give you something to think about! 

So here are our favorite Moving On quotes of all time:

"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened."  Dr. Seuss

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."  Mahatma Gandhi

"Follow the trail to your dreams, not the path of others' expectations."  Byrd Baggett

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."  Alexander Graham Bell

"Change is such hard work."  Billy Crystal

"Every exit is an entrance somewhere else."  Tom Stoppard

"My mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on."  Forrest Gump

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."  Helen Keller

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go."  Herman Hesse

"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror."  Byrd Baggett

"Change is inevitable— except from a vending machine."  Robert C. Gallagher

"Always continue to climb."  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us."  Joseph Campbell

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."  Reinhold Niebuhr

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward".  Victor Kiam

"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry; it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry, it'll change."  John A. Simone, Sr.

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."  Seneca

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard".  A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."  Harrison Ford

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."  Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."  Helen Keller

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."  Maya Angelou

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."  C.S. Lewis

"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."  Winston Churchill

"Change in all things is sweet."  Aristotle

"Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard."  Dave Mustaine

"Somehow I know we'll meet again. Not sure quite where and I don't know just when. You're in my heart, so until then it's time for saying goodbye."  Muppets

 "Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There they are…our favorite moving on quotes.  If you have more to share, we'd love to hear them— maybe a quote that helped you get through big changes in your life.  Share it with us in the comments below.