“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”— Holly Black, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Break, broken, Heartbroken
“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's…”— Jocelyn Soriano, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, Self-Love
“Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Love Yourself, Imperfection
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”— Paul McCartney, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, broken wings, fly
“The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.”— Bryant McGill, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, beauty, shattered, character
“My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.”— Jewel, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, broken, Truth
“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, walk away
“When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Self-Love, Inner Voice
“She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck You.”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, Feeling
“Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.”— Larry Kramer, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, Infinite
“We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.”— Tullian Tchividjian, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, broken, Heartbroken
“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Acceptance
“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”— Aberjhani, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Love Yourself, rainbow
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant…”— Mandy Hale, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Self-Love
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Self-Love
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”— James Baldwin, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Self-Love
“I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Starting Over
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”— Kim McMillen, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, love myself, Self-Love
“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”— Arundhati Roy, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Love, Self-Love
“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, forward, Progress
“Change has to come for life to struggle forward.”— Helen Hollick, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Change
“Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.”— Zena Wynn, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Past, forward
“I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.”— Shannon A. Thompson, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, The Past, Future
“There was nothing to do but keep moving forward and make the moments count.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, forward
“Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.”— Jack London, amazon.comTagged: Don't Go Back, Life