These moving on and letting go quotes may be exactly what you need to move forward with your life.

If you’re feeling anger, resentment or heartbreak right now, you’re not alone. To forgive and forget is almost always easier said than done.

Often times, it’s due to perfectly valid reasons like a terrible co-worker, a jealous friend, a dissolving relationship or more complicated family problems.

At the end of the day, holding on to these feelings is what truly holds us back. The quotes below aren’t about forgiving someone who doesn’t deserve it or forgetting a situation you went through. They’re about making peace with the past, learning from it, and recognizing the best is always yet to come—regardless of how you feel today.

The quotes below aren’t about forgiving someone who doesn’t deserve it or forgetting a situation you went through, they’re about making peace with the past in order to learn from it. And recognizing the best is always yet to come—regardless of how you feel today.

The 50 Best Quotes About Moving Forward and Letting Go

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest. – The Weeknd

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ― Nelson Mandela
True forgiveness is when you can say, Thank you for that experience. ― Oprah Winfrey
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. – Steve Maraboli
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ― Thomas Stephen Szasz
Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. ― Wm. Paul Young
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are. ― Cherie Carter-Scott
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. ― Anne Lamott
Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. ― Rick Warren
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ― Marianne Williamson
Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wildehttps://gfycat.com/MiserlyDenseIndochinesetiger
We don’t forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it–because we need it. ― Bree Despain
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. – Moshe Dayan
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. – Anonymous
Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me. – Sara Paddison
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. – Marlene Dietrich
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison. ― Nelson Mandela
In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness. ― Toba Beta
Forgiveness is God’s greatest gift ― Dan Brown
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. ― Criss Jami
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. ― Corrie ten Boom
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. – George MacDonald
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. – Louis B. Smedes
We are all on a life-long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven. – Martha Kilpatrick
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. – Robert Muller
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. – Mark Twain
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. – William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boese
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. – William Blake
If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one. – Robert Brault
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. – George Herbert
Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. – Roberto Assagioli
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. – Harriet Nelson
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. – Isaac Friedmann
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. – Louis B. Smedes
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. – Norman Cousins
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. – Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. – Indira Gandhi
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. – Alice Duer Miller
As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind. – Isabelle Holland
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. – Cherie Carter-Scott
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. – Mason Cooley
Only the brave know how to forgive. … A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. – Laurence Sterne
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. ― Stephen Chbosky
Forgiveness is the final form of love. ― Reinhold Niebuhr
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ― Ellen Goodman
It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. ― Mitch Albom