50+ Quotes About Moving Away and Starting a New Chapter of Life

These quotes about moving away and starting a new chapter of life should help pump you up for the new adventure you are going on. If you have ever taken the plunge and followed your dreams, ambitions, education, or your job and moved abroad, you will understand how it makes your emotions go haywire.

You tell people all about it, but do you understand it yourself? Probably not, and you probably won’t until you have been living in this new place for a few weeks and finally think, “Woah, I actually really live here now?” You know you’re leaving your family and friends, and internally debate whether you are making the right decision.

I moved away from home right after college and am still on the road! I have never regretted my decision as it taught me so much about myself, taught me to appreciate my home culture through experiencing others, and also showed me what my home really means to me. Here are lessons you learn by moving abroad alone.

Now, after 10 years, I have moved to multiple countries and started over for a period of time, such as the UK (moving to London alone was an interesting experience), Australia (first Sydney, then Melbourne), Croatia, Indonesia, Mexico, and Spain for a while, too. As the article goes on, I’ll tell a few anecdotes from my experiences in each of these places.

These starting a new chapter in life quotes will help you feel confident. Remember – nothing is ever permanent, and you can always come back… but you cannot go back and take a chance again! 

Just make sure to move to somewhere you’re really excited about, and also plan throughly, including using a moving cost calculator to figure out your budget. Enjoy these quotes about moving away and quotes about moving on.

Moving Away Quotes: To Inspire You

If you need a bit of inspiration to get up and go, here are some quotes that may inspire you to take the leap. Trust me, it will always be worth it for the experience, and your home will always be there for you to go back to if you so choose.

When I moved to London all alone, I had no idea how hard it would be for me to find a job, let alone make new friends in the most anti-social city in the world. But once I pushed past those barriers, it was the most rewarding experience to fall in love with one of the most exciting cities in the world (click the links to read about my hilarious experiences)!

• Adventure must start with running away from home. – William Bolitho

• You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place… like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again. – Azar Nafisi

• Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. – Guy Finley

• There’s nothing wrong with being content with where you are, but if you have that nagging voice in your head tell you to “just go!” then do it. Comfort zones are, well, comfortable, but they’re also a place where possibilities are limited and opportunities are minimal. Just do it. – Brittani Dick, Elite Daily

• You may feel like home is the anchor in your storm, but leaving may well save you from drowning. – Unknown

• “Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale

• “Home is not a place, it’s a feeling that you carry with you wherever you go.” – Unknown
  
• “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — A.A. Milne

• Leaving home in a sense involves a sort of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. – Robert Neely Bellah

• Turns out, I traveled 1,000 miles to meet my friends, each one like a fine wine, but if I had never left home, they would still be on the vine. – Unknown

• Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King Jr.

• It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Leave home with a big, bright dream. Nurture it into a bigger, brighter reality. – Unknown

• Once I left home, I finally understood how to define nostalgia. – Unknown

• “Your wings already exist. All you have to do is fly.” – Unknown

• “We must take adventures to know where we truly belong.” – Unknown

• In my hometown, the sky seemed endless . . . but there was nothing to see. – Ryohgo Narita

• Gaining the courage to leave home was the seed I had planted. I reaped a bountiful harvest, overflowing with dignity and pride — a concept lost on me, but for the lessons I learned at home. – Unknown

• Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. – Robert Tew

• I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don’t mind leaving nearly everything behind. – Beth Revis

• “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” – Pierce Brown

• “We should not underestimate the significance of the small group of people who have a new vision of a just and gentle world. The quality of a culture may be changed when two percent of its people have a new vision.” – Robert Neelly Bellah

Best Quotes About Moving Away

You can always change your mind, but you often cannot re-do an experience such as moving to a new place. It doesn’t always have to be perfect, either. When I first moved to Australia, I chose Sydney, as I am from California, and I figured it would be perfect for me with the beaches and sunshine.

But, sadly, after 6 months there and only a few friends, it just wasn’t the fit I needed. And that’s okay. Not long later, I ended up moving to Melbourne and absolutely falling in love with the city; I was welcomed by a community of new friends so quickly and even met a partner. I ended up living there many years!

So even if you choose wrong, you can always course correct. I am a living example of that! These quotes about moving to a new place are just as inspiring but also stand out for other reasons, too.

• Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~ Carl Bard

• The sweetest part of leaving home is knowing, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that you’ll always carry it with you. – Unknown

• “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” – Maya Angelou

• Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other. – Parker Palmer

• “Sometimes you have to go far from home to find what home really means.” – Unknown

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

• Leaving home is priceless because it illuminates for us the blessings of having one. – Unknown

• Leaving home is the number one reason for going home. – Unknown

• “I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it was because I had lived there long enough.” – Henry David Thoreau

• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

• No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one! – C. JoyBell C.

• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

• “You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” – Miriam Adeney

Funny Quotes About Moving to a New Place

Sometimes, you just have to laugh! Here are some funny and silly quotes about leaving one’s hometown.

If you want more inspiration, read some tips from a psychologist about moving away from home for the first time.

• I never wore high heels in my hometown. – Liu Wen

• You see much more of your children once they leave home. – Lucille Ball

• “They say ‘home is where the heart is,’ but I think it’s also where I don’t have to pay rent.”

• It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches. – Lemony Snickett

• “You can always come back home. But leaving will show you the world.” – Unknown

• “Goodbye, free laundry, stocked fridge, and magically clean bathrooms. Hello, adulting.”

• “Home is where the Wi-Fi auto-connects, and moving away is discovering how often it doesn’t.”

Quotes About Returning Home After Leaving

Now, these quotes don’t have to mean you moved back home. They exemplify how it feels to return home – even if just for a short visit – after being shaped and changed by the experience of moving to a new place.

It’s really a wonderful and interesting feeling returning home to the same place as a different person. It’s like everything stayed the same, but you! There’s nothing more defining than moving away from home then experiencing your hometown in a new way.

• “The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” – Wendy Wunder

• “To Leave Home is to Grow. To Return is to Understand” – unknown

• “In my hometown memories are fresh.” – Adele

• Once I was brave enough to leave home, I discovered splendid parts of me I had no clue existed. I, then, realized where they came from and hurried home. – Unknown

• “You never really leave the place you love; you take part of it with you and leave part of yourself behind.” – Unknown

• “Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.” – John Ed Pearce

• “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett

• “No matter where you go or how long you stay away, there’s something about coming home that brings you back to your truest self.” – Unknown

Funny Internal Conflicts and Quotes About Moving Away and Starting a New Life

Now that we have seen some heartfelt quotes about moving away, I wanted to share some funny internal fights and dialogues you also may have when beginning a new journey in a new place. I still think moving abroad alone teaches you more than anything – so don’t second-guess yourself!

In your head, it might go a little something like this: You know the move day is coming, but somehow you don’t actually comprehend it, and the internal conflicts you have before moving away from home are insane.

You might second guess yourself every 5 minutes, but some small part of you still knows it’s right. Whether it’s because of a bad case of the travel bug, to go off to college, or for the opportunity of a lifetime, you are going away and you have all the emotions that come along with it. Can you relate to any of these?

• What the hell am I doing?
• Hell yes. Why did I take so long to do this?
  

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• I can’t stop talking about my moving plans! I want to tell the whole world.
• I am SICK and TIRED of people asking me questions about why I’m moving.

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•  But I love it here, why would I want to leave?
• I hate this place, get me out now.

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•  I’m so not prepared for this. I’m not ready.
• I’ve never been more ready for anything in my life.

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• I need to make sure I pack lightly but carefully, and pack all the right things.
• Screw it, I hate packing. I don’t care. If I forget something I’ll buy it there.

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• I really need to start packing.
• I’ll just throw my stuff in a bag the night before, it’s chill.

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•  I need to have as much fun as possible here before I leave.
• I’ve had my fun, its time to get on with my life.

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• I want to see all my friends one last time before I leave!
• I don’t want to see anyone, I just want to go.

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•  I must be prepared; I need to research my destination and know what to expect.
• I’ll figure it out when I get there, I have other things to do.

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• I should tell everyone I am leaving so they will feel obligated to spend time with me before I go.
• I don’t want to tell anyone; I am tired of explaining to people that I’m moving.

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•  But how could I move away from my family and friends?
• Time to get the heck away from these people.

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• OH MY GOD the date is approaching so fast, It can’t be happening!
• FINALLY it’s almost time for me to go.

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• I can’t do it. I can’t go!!!
• Shut up, of course you can go. You’re going. Hell yeah, I’m going. Let’s go.

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• I’m so scared!!! I have no idea how to do this!
• Wow I’m so excited for this new adventure!!

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• I’m going to miss this place/these people so much.
• Whatever, I’ll come back and visit… I can always come visit.

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