Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.

Walter Anderson

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Life is change. It's not possible to appreciate the good times without walking through the bad ones. Let yourself cheer a little bit by those wonderful words and sayings.

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He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn’t love me anymore, and it’s not the end of the world.

Jennifer Weiner

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not. Now the most important thing about me is that I’m old.

Nora Ephron

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Yoko Ono

I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

Nicholas Sparks

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Omar Khayyam

It’s much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don’t.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Everyone’s allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it’s a mistake not to be.

Harriet Evans

When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it’s because a little piece gets lost — the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.

David Levithan

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

I’ve always believed that if you don’t stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

Paul Anka

It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Nick Hornby

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.

Golda Meir

Hearts live by being wounded.

Oscar Wilde

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.

Billy Corgan

Bad days call for foods that are bad for your butt.

H.M Ward

What’s broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Margaret Mitchell

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.

Rita Rudner

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Jean Kerr

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Denis Waitley

Some of us think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.

Herman Hesse

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.

Demi Lovato

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Romain Rolland

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Carl Sandburg

Don’t allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don’t find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?

Donna Lynn Hope

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.

Candace Bushnell

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

Stephanie Klein

Only time can heal his heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

Miss Piggy

The dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Nora Ephron

I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can't help but glow.

Kellie Elmore

I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

Paris Hilton

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Jimmy Carter

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Danny Elfman

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

John Dingell

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

Mary Oliver

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

Clint Eastwood

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.

Brian Tracy

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

Ron Howard

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

A. N. Wilson

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Terry Pratchett

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

William J. Wilson

Sometimes spectacular things look really great, but when push comes to shove come fifth round, the basics, fundamentals and technical aspects are going to come into effect.

Robbie Lawler

I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career.

Greg Graffin

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

Nicholas Sparks

When people cheat in any arena they diminish themselves they threaten their own self esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.

Cheryl Hughes

I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

Nas

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Peter Max