“You already have one asshole, you don't need another one.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.comTagged: Love, Assholes, Breakups, Relationships, Dating
“You can either experience pain willingly or unwillingly, and pain that’s embraced by choice is much easier to tolerate than pain that must be endured by consequence.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Embracing Pain, Suffering, Grief, Breakups
“It's an odd thing to think about, but try imagining that your breakup is a disease. If you were told that you had a serious yet curable disease, would you go get hammered on a regular basis? Eat two bags of Oreos? Chain-smoke, pop, pills, get stoned, or fuck around? NO YOU WOULDN'T. You would take g…”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.comTagged: Breakups, Self-Care, Health
“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: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Don’t be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You are deeply missable. However, the only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.comTagged: Breakups, Dating, Missing Someone, Moving On
“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
“Go, even though you love him. Go, even though he is kind and faithful and dear to you. Go, even though he's your best friend and you're his. Go, even though you can't imagine your life without him. Go, even though he adores you and your leaving will devastate him. Go, even though your friends will b…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Leaving, Breakups, Letting Go
“Alone also means available for someone outstanding.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.comTagged: Being Single, Single, Breakups, Relationships
“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
“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
“What I can do is paint you a picture of what you’ll never see when you’re with a guy who’s really into you: You’ll never see you staring maniacally at your phone, willing it to ring. You’ll never see you ruining an evening with friends because you’re calling for your messages every fifteen seconds.…”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.comTagged: Breakups, Relationships, Dating, Love, Insecurity
“Getting over it doesn't mean forgetting it, it just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn't destroy you.”— Kevin Brooks, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, Getting Over it, Change, Accepting Change, Breakups
“The person you loved took a good long look at the awesomeness that is you, evaluated your relationship together, and said, “No, thanks. I’ll try my luck elsewhere.” That alone should make you realize that it wasn’t a match made in heaven.”— Greg Behrendt, amazon.comTagged: Breakups, Relationships, Change, Moving On, Closure
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, strength, Starting Over, Trauma, Grief
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what'. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.comTagged: Problems, emotions, Failure, Moving On, Letting Go
“The way to not give a shit about something is to give way more of a shit about something else.”— Derek Doepker, amazon.comTagged: Passion, Lust, Moving On, Desire, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“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
“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Heartache, Sadness, Starting Over, Moving On
“If someone doesn’t care about losing you: Move on. There are thousands of people that will die and kill to not lose you.”— Unknown, quotesberry.comTagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“If you don’t like being a doormat, then get the f**k off the floor.”— Kelly Elliott, amazon.comTagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“If you have to speculate if someone loves you and wants to be with you, chances are they don’t. It’s not that complicated. Love, in most cases, betrays the one feeling it. Don’t waste moments waiting and wondering. Don’t throw away your time dreaming of someone that doesn’t want you. No one is that…”— Donna Lynn Hope, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“Why don’t you just pretend that the asshole dropped dead? You can’t call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys, and get it over with.”— Isabel Lopez, goodreads.comTagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”— Joel Osteen, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, Moving Forward, Breakups
“This is how bad stories end. But it's also how the best stories begin.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.caTagged: Endings, Beginnings, Pain, Starting Over, Letting Go