Moving Quotes

“I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me.”
― Jean Kyoung Frazier, Pizza Girl

“Don't wait for your life to magically come together--it's your work to do. Every day, every moment, you are making your life from scratch. Today, take one step, however small, toward creating a life you can be proud of.”
― Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

“Eating sensibly and exercising don't guarantee long life and good health; they just decrease the risk of getting sick.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

“No matter what life throws your way, keep your head up.
As long as you're learning, you're living.”
― Sistar SunRA, Queen of Hearts

“We evolved to be physically active as we age, and in turn being active helps us age well. Further, the longer we stay active, the greater the benefit, and it is almost never too late to benefit from getting fit.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

“There are days when I feel like I’ve seen enough, done enough, felt enough. When I call my wandering days over and slowly accept the quiet life from here on. When the dreams of making waves are a vague memory and the songs I meant to sing feel more like a finished painting, something to just observe and hang on the wall from now on, to those who wish to observe it. But then the night falls and the morning rise and horizons are calling once again and I’m on my way. Forests fresh and pastures new. And most of the time I’m fine with this.
I’m learning to be fine with this.

So maybe that’s what settling into this world means. To simply, and as hard as it is, just settle into your own way of living—your own pace, your own rhythm—and not think too much about it. Just wake up and let your legs wander where they need to wander no matter where that may lead and just simply trust your path. There is a difference between what you want and what you wish to want. What you’d like to do and what you wish you’d like to do. I’m learning to not wish, but just do.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“You can’t MOVE when you THINK you can’t move. It’s all in your mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“We come from people who found hope wherever they went.”
― Ruth Behar, Tía Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey

“They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“No matter how slow you move, keep moving.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“About half of them just say STUFF...we won't know what's in each box until we actually open it. Like Christmas. Except we already own everything.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“I know this was the right decision and that’s allowed to hurt me a little, and to be afraid too. It all just means that there’s something worth being afraid of. Something worth losing.”
― Cheryl van Gent, The Secrets of the Isle

“I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping. And like he would be kind of proud of whatever come up to make the moving or the setting still look hard. He set there on the wagon, hunched up, blinking, listening to us tell about how quick the bridge went and how high the water was, and I be durn if he didn't act like he was proud of it, like he had made the river rise himself.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“I am left with the magic, the name, the heart miraculously touched.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“I moved to Texas, and I liked it there; but I did not stay, because my heart was not there.”
― Elise Aurelia Houston

“He had lived so many years in this room that he still could not quite grasp the idea that now it was finished. He would never again see this place which had been the very center of his life. Others would come into it, destroy the order of things that existed now, transform these four walls into something he would not even recognize, and kill off forever any lingering assumption that a certain Monsieur Trelkovsky had lived here before. Unceremoniously, from one day to the next, he would have vanished.”
― Roland Topor, The Tenant

“Choose your city carefully and live there for several months first before buying a house and setting up a business.”
― Darice Cairns, The Art of Finding Truth: One Man's Journey Through Love, Life, Grief and Joy

“Settling in is something strange, the shift to nesting after all that’s involved with a move… the flurry of activity, that motion, lost to a conscious decision to finally just chill and try and enjoy it. There’s always more you could do, always something else—clean the baseboards, burn some sage—but after a time enough is enough.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“... things would never be the same, but I can not let that occupy my mind. I just had to face life on life's terms, and not linger in the past or the future, but to stay in the present.”
― Grant Matheson, The Golden Boy: A Doctor's Journey with Addiction

“While we were moving from Camden Town, London, to Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, there was much to do: and Elena did almost all of it. At the outset she made it clear that by far the greatest obstacle we would face -- the most time-consuming and labour-intensive, the most tediously labyrinthine, and the most extortionate -- had to do with American healthcare. One afternoon I gingerly looked into it; and after an hour or two I thought, Well at least there’ll be no ambiguity in our case: if any Amis gets so much as a headache or a nosebleed, it will be far simpler and thriftier for the four of us to fly first class to London, take a limousine each to the Savoy, and then, the next day, wander into one or another of the NHS.”
― Martin Amis, Inside Story

“Life was moving so fast that I was having trouble landing with both feet in this moment. I’d finally “arrived” again...Why wasn’t I more excited?”
― Natalie M. Esparza, Spectacle: Discover a Vibrant Life through the Lens of Curiosity

“There seems to me to have been twice as much done in some ages in defending the Bible as in expounding it, but if the whole of our strength shall henceforth go to the exposition and spreading of it, we may leave it pretty much to defend itself. I do not know whether you see that lion—it is very distinctly before my eyes; a number of persons advance to attack him, while a host of us would defend the grand old monarch, the British Lion, with all our strength. Many suggestions are made and much advice is offered. This weapon is recommended, and the other. Pardon me if I offer a quiet suggestion. Open the door and let the lion out; he will take care of himself. Why, they are gone! He no sooner goes forth in his strength than his assailants flee. The way to meet infidelity is to spread the Bible. The answer to every objection against the Bible is the Bible.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Man, I want to die, is all,’ cried Ploy.
‘Don’t you know,’ said Dahoud, ‘that life is the most precious possession you have?’
‘Ho, ho,’ said Ploy through his tears. ‘Why?’
‘Because,’ said Dahoud, ‘without it, you’d be dead.’
‘Oh,’ said Ploy. He thought about this for a week.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“My loyalty tendered imagina- tive lapses in perception. I’d ally with Howie however he needed, even if I never quite knew what was real or what was in his mind. It didn’t matter to me what was real, because my loneliness was alleviated. We lived in a bubble where true and false increasingly dropped their distinctions. It was the space of fantasy, and that space felt holy to me, just like the clothes at Charivari felt holy—clothes that were made for some fantasy body, a kind of personhood yet to be invented. The clothes opened the space for this person to spring into existence, just as Howie’s stories opened the space for us to become characters in them. The stories bonded us together—for if you shared the same fictions you shared the same reality.”
― David Adjmi, Lot Six

“It’s not the size of my feet. Rather, it’s my determination to make them walk.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But now that I am finally leaving, I see everything through rose-colored glasses”
― Robin Ha, Almost American Girl

“Was it possible to pine for a place I’d been perfectly happy to leave? For a long time while I worked on my ‘love where you live’ experiments, I had thought of place attachment as an either-or proposition: either you adored your city and stayed there forever in connubial bliss, or you didn’t. Moving was a failure of commitment and love.”
― Melody Warnick, This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live

“If you are routinely moving during sleep, you are experiencing sleep fragmentation and will likely have daytime fatigue and sleepiness. This is called Sleep Movement Disorder.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Dancing isn't running, but it's usually more fun and such a universal, valued form of human psysical activity that we should consider it another gait akin to running.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding