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#1

“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.”
― Peter Straub, The Throat

tags: flashback, flashbacks, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, terror

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#2

“Here, from her ashes you lay. A broken girl so lost in despondency that you know that even if she does find her way out of this labyrinth in hell, that she will never see, feel, taste, or touch life the same again.”
― Amanda Steele, The Cliff

tags: insomnia, ptsd, rape, rape-survivor, reborn

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#3

“Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.”
― Amanda Steele, The Cliff

tags: insomnia, ptsd, rape

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#4

“If only I could tell someone.
The humiliation I go through
when I think of my past
can only be described as grace.
We are created by being destroyed.”
― Franz Wright

tags: death, doubt, faith, life, ptsd

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#5

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: forgetting, forgiving, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life, life-and-living, moving-on, people

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#6

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”
― Mary Manin Morrissey

tags: advice-for-daily-living, life, moving-on, relationships

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#7

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, future, home, homelessness, leaving, memories, memory, moving-on, past, reminiscence, roots, uncertainty

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#8

“Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours. When you finally recognize that truth then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others. From this point you will finally be free.”
― Shannon Alder

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#9

“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: heartbreak, loss, moving, moving-on, stepping

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#10

“And I told him, I said: "One day you're going to miss the subway because it's not going to come. One of these days, it's going to break down and it's not going to come around and everyone else will just wait for the next one or will take the bus, or walk, or run to the next station: they will go on with their lives. And you're not going to be able to go on with your life! You'll be standing there, in the subway station, staring at the tube. Why? Because you think that everything has to happen perfectly and on time and when you think it's going to happen! Well guess what! That's not how things happen! And you'll be the only one who's not going to be able to go on with life, just because your subway broke down. So you know what, you've got to let go, you've got to know that things don't happen the way you think they're going to happen, but that's okay, because there's always the bus, there's always the next station...you can always take a cab.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: accepting-life, control-issues, controlling, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, letting-go, life-and-living, living-life, moving-on, setting-yourself-free, the-art-of-living

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#11

“I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on”
― Rascal Flatts

tags: break-up, couples, letting-go, love, moving-on, relationship, song-lyrics

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#12

“I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.”
― Cameron Dokey, The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

tags: courage, love, moving-on

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#13

“I am more than my scars.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

tags: moving-on, overcoming-adversity, overcoming-fear, overcoming-obstacles, self-love

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#14

“But part of surviving is being able to move on.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

tags: moving-on, survival

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#15

“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.

The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

tags: bravery, moving-on, time-passing

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#16

“Don't tie your heart to a person that has nothing left to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while, but when you get over it, you'll see that its better.”
― Orebela Gbenga

tags: moving-on

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#17

“It's hard to give up the being together with someone.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die

tags: conflict, friendship, giving-up, love, moving, moving-on, relationship

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#18

“Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they're happening, they feel like the only thing that matters and you can hardly imagine that there's a world out there that might have anything else going on. And then the glow cloud moves on. And you move on. And the event is behind you. And you may find, as time passes, that you remember it less and less. Or absolutely not at all, in my case.”
― Welcome to Night Vale

tags: cecil-baldwin, cecil-gershwin, hard-times, humor, inspirational, jeffrey-cranor, joseph-fink, moving-on, podcast, tumblr, welcome-to-night-vale, wtnv

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#19

“Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: character, choices, daughter-of-god, dignity, god-s-plan, goodbyes, letting-go, love, move-on, moving-on, proving-love, quality-person, red-path, self-love, self-respect, spiritual-path

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#20

“Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.”
― Flavia Weedn, To Take Away the Hurt: Insights into Healing

tags: depression, grief, life, love, moving-on, sadness, sorrow

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#21

“What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars

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#22

“I read them a poem by Phillip Lopate that someone once sent me, that goes: We who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting, as a group, to devise ways to keep you in perpetual uncertainty frustration discontent and torture by neither loving you as much as you want nor cutting you adrift. Your analyst is in on it, plus your boyfriend and your ex-husband; and we have pledged to disappoint you as long as you need us. In announcing our association we realize we have placed in your hands a possible antidote against uncertainty indeed against ourselves. But since our Thursday nights have brought us to a community of purpose rare in itself with you as the natural center, we feel hopeful you will continue to make unreasonable demands for affection if not as a consequence of your disastrous personality then for the good of the collective.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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