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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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 had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

Pat Travers

I'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.

Emmanuel Macron

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Salvador Dali

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic.

John Leeson

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Gerrit Smith

I shop for clothes when I have time - early in the morning or late at night.

Jessica Seinfeld

My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.

Louis Theroux

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

Walter Kirn

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

Ellen DeGeneres

Show you care. Be aware.

Unknown

We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.

Heather Burns

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

David Horowitz

I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us.

Monte Irvin

I got over being embarrassed.

Mike Shinoda

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul Alinsky

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

Sonia Sotomayor