“You wrote down all these things to say goodbye to, but so many of them are good things. Why not just say goodbye to the bad things? Say goodbye to all the times you felt lost, to all the times it was a ‘no’ instead of a ‘yes,’ to all the scrapes as and bruises, to all the heartache. Say goodbye to e…”— Lily Aldrin, amazon.comTagged: HIMYM, Goodbyes, Hellos, Starting Over, Moving On
“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Pain, Suffering, Healing, Change, Permanence
“Love is not the last room: there are others after it, the whole length of the corridor that has no end.”— Yehuda Amichai, loc.govTagged: Love, Relationships, Breakups, Starting Over, Moving On
“Many of us find ourselves saying “BUT HE WAS SO GREAT!” Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on vacation. Things changed and it’s important to remember that they did.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.comTagged: Breakups, Denial, Facing Reality, Moving On, Closure
“You can drive yourself crazy, or you can get over it. The choice is yours.”— Stephen Holden, nytimes.comTagged: Obsessing, Reality, Getting Over it, Moving On, Acceptance
“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go. That's when it counts.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, Change, Overcoming Obstacles, Challenges
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Loss, Longing, Love, Grief
“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other and if a thin voice cries out somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear and keep going.”— Geraldine Brooks, goodreads.comTagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Life, Change, Pain
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Desire, Moving On, Moving Forward, Grief
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.comTagged: Future, Rebuilding Your Life, Life, Change
“Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Change, Endings, Relationships, Moving On
“Hearts don’t break, y’all, they bruise and get better. We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You call 9 – 1 – 1. Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.”— Buddy Wakefield, buddywakefield.comTagged: Heartbreak, Healing, Love, Broken Hearts, Redemption
“Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.”— Cheryl Strayed, goodreads.comTagged: Joy, Happiness, The Past, Moving On, Change
“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius t…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Letting Go, Change, Starting Over, Consequence, Blame
“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.comTagged: Confusion, Life, Challenges, Change, Navigating Change
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.comTagged: Life, Starting Over, Change, Personal Growth, New Beginning
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Pain, Leaving, New Beginnings, Starting Over
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Losing, Gaining, Pain
“There comes a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.”— Tennessee Williams, goodreads.comTagged: Change, Leaving, Moving On, Moving Forward, Timing
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.comTagged: Letting Go, Love, Relationships
“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”— Kait Rokowski, chrissystockton.comTagged: Poetry, Breakups, Breaking Up, Relationships
“Go, even though there is nowhere to go. Go, even though you don't know exactly why you can't stay. Go, because you want to. Because wanting to leave is enough.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Leaving, Moving On, Walking Away
“Like falling for someone, sometimes falling away from someone takes time. And I think that’s okay. But slowly, too slowly, I will convince myself that I deserve better. Slowly, I will pick up myself and move on. Slowly, I will look forward to the day when I finally ignore your texts, your tweets, an…”— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Letting Go, Texting, Moving On, Leaving People Behind
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: willpower, Endings, Relationships, Heartbreak
“There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.comTagged: Resilience, Starting Over, Change
“There's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every new beginning comes at the cost of an ending.”— Jennifer E. Smith, amazon.comTagged: Starting Over, Moving On, New, Old, Beginnings
“Life went on without you. Of course, it did. Of course, it does. It was just an ending, they tell me, not the end.”— Lang Leav, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, Life, Breakups, Starting Over
“Do you know there's a halfway world between each ending and each new beginning? It's called the hurting time, Jean Perdu. It's a bog; it's where your dreams and worries and forgotten plans gather. Your steps are heavier during that time. Don't underestimate that transition, Jeanno, between farewell…”— Nine George, barnesandnoble.comTagged: Starting Over, Patience, Goodbyes, Hellos, Endings
“There are far, far better things out there than any we leave behind.”— C.S. Lewis, amazon.comTagged: Change, Optimism, The future, Moving Forward, Embracing Change