20 Quotes About Why Losing Love Will Be The Best Thing That Ever Happens To You

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“We think of forest fires as these devastating events that we need to stop, but they are actually vital to ecological health of an area. There are plants that require the heat of a wildfire for their seeds to burst open and plant themselves in the earth. There are others that are meant to be flammabl…”

— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com

“The way other people feel about you is not your responsibility.”

— Chrissy Stockton, Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com

“You only lost something you never had. If he wanted to be with you, he would be with you. All that you lost was an idea you had about what one version of your future might have been.”

— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com

“You’ll realize you weren’t who you were supposed to be when you were with him, you were who he wanted you to be. You can no longer rely on him to distract you from the person you know you need and want to become. You have time and energy to focus on selfish pursuits that will improve your quality of…”

— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mocke…”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi, amazon.com

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have r…”

— Rumi, amazon.com

“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.”

— C. Joybell C., amazon.com

“All of those fears you had in the past, those vintage anxieties that kept you up in 2004, where are they now? That’s right, they’re gone. You killed all of them. You got over it. You lived.”

— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com

“If a guy leaves when things get a little rocky, it means he is lacking in the most important quality you need in a partner, and that is a man who is committed not only to you, but to making it work.”

— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.com

“You may not see it today or tomorrow, but you will look back in a few years and be absolutely perplexed and awed by how every little thing added up and brought you somewhere wonderful– or where you always wanted to be. You will be grateful that things didn’t work out the way you once wanted them to.”

— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com

“The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of w…”

— Mercedes Lackey, amazon.com

“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”

— J.S.B. Morse, amazon.com

“There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“You knew me once, but you won’t know me twice.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

“Chaos is being yourself.”

— E.M Cioran, amazon.com