Motivational Timeout: Quotes to Get You Through Your Move

Published: September 21, 2015

The moving process can seem like it drags on forever. You start to forget what it was life was like before all the boxes, bubble wrap, and packing tape. But making the move to a new home—whether it’s down the street or across the country—is exciting and full of brand new possibility! Here is a collection of our favorite quotes to remind you why

“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“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

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”

— Joseph Priestley

“Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.”

— Pope John Paul II

“After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.”

— Lemony Snicket

“Any time there’s a major change, whether it’s going into a relationship, getting out of a relationship, moving to a new city… — that usually provides a catalyst for an explosion of creativity.”

— Lucinda Williams

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”

— Rachel Wolchin

“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.”

— Charles Dudley Warner

“Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?”

— Mike Shinoda